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One thing I learned about poems is that there are no boundaries for what a poem can be about… the question I have is how can you really tell if a document is a poem since this genre is so vague.

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One thing I learned is that poetry can be ambiguous, and it doesn't need to have an answer. One question I have is where is the line drawn between poetry and regular text, if there is one?

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I learned that poetry can quite literally be a million different forms of writing. I was quite surprised to see how "Lighght" can be a whole poem, but it interested me because I have always understood poetry to be up to the discretion of the writer. One thing that I am left wondering is, is the poem a poem only if the author states it to be? Or is it possible that a reader can see words on a page that the author didn't mean as a poem, and sees it as a poem to them?

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One  thing I was left thinking about after the article was the idea of "ambiguity" and how it isn't normally desired in daily life, but is able to be harnessed and expressed by poetry and the author in a unique way. Utilizing ambiguity as a tool of rhetoric was very interesting.

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A poem is a strange thing that operate like nothing else in the world. But, we can partially describe a poem as a art form which uses rhyme and words to describe self-expression or the beauty of the world around us.

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To me, A poem can be a way to express a feeling but it is also so much more. There is no clear way to explain what a poem is and what it can mean

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What I learned: While a poem shares and conveys many of the traditional conventions of other forms of literature, we see that it has the ability to play with and subvert the expectations of them as well as present things in a non traditional way.

Question: Is it possible to venture too far from the conventions that you leave the realm of poetry or literature all together?

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One thing that this reading made me learn about poems was that it can have a lot of meaning when its read more than once. my question is can a poem have no meaning at all?

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1 thing I learned how the author looks at poetry much different than I do personally “ a poem moves a reader very rarely”
1 thing I question is if poetry is ambiguous (which I agree with ) why in English classes ,do teachers find interpretation that others(students ) may not see the same way

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Poems are often invested in making the familiar, strange; they’re capable of calling attention to truths or realities that go unnoticed

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Poems can be derived of pictures, not just words.
Some people find them useless, but how could it possibly be useless?

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In their privileging of ambiguity, poems aren’t as marketable as other genres

(like newspapers, non-fiction memoirs, sci-fi) which often do give us clear

answers to clear questions

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One thing I learned from this reading is that a poem is just "a thing" can can be really anything. My question is given the kinda vague nature of poems, are there certain rules that all poems have to follow to be poems?

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In the freedom of navigating a poem, there’s more necessarily more mental work involved

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What’s productive in trying to define poetry isn’t in settling on an answer

but in the attempt itself — debating a definition “helps the mind play with its well-trod patterns of thought, and can even help reroute those patterns by making us see the familiar anew”

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One thing that I learned was that the definition of poetry is even more complex than I originally thought. I have always had a hard time articulating a definition for it and now I am left wondering even more.

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Poetry shares many conventions with other genres (like using imagery, sound, etc.) — so to try and define a poem by what it’s made of doesn’t quite get us there

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I think I learned that poetry is more of a medium of pure emotion where as prose is a medium more of thought.

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I never thought about how poems are kinda free in a way and also that printing a poem is wasteful in a meaningful way, if that makes sense. I also wonder why poems have such a pull over us.

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The reading we did for today left me with more questions than answers. One thing I learned is that Poetry is a form in itself. It does not belong to Art or Writing necessarily, but I still question its existence anyway