P1 - "How to read a poem" by Guy Gagnier https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt Post your notes here. Include the chapter's title, its direct link, and its most relevant or meaningful points. en-us 2021-04-13 13:35:05 UTC 2021-04-14 17:02:42 UTC hello@padlet.com Epic, Drama, Lyric: Be Plural like the Universe 24margain6363 https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1412502305 Sofi Margain
Notes: 
  • Poetry tells the history, is engaging and fulfilling. 
  • Epic of narrative: narrator speaks in the first person, and then the character speaks for itself.
  • Drama: characters do all the talking
  • Lyric: first-person
  • true= we encounter lyric poetry put into words of characters.
  • Pessoa wrote poetry in three ways making three different fictive “authors”.
  • Poetry has a lot of mystery and relation to music.
Major ideas:
  • What the 3 different ways to write poems; epic, drama, lyric.
Quotes:
  • “from lyric poetry to dramatic there is one continuous gradation.”
  • “I think we ought to take to heart his Whitmanesque motto, “Be plural like the universe!”
  • “Poetry never loses its sense of sacred mystery.”
  • “private exchange that takes place between writer and reader.”
]]> 2021-04-13 15:33:00 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1412502305 Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 24nunez9081 https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1412529883 (Carolina Nunez)

Notes: 
  • Rhythm creates a pattern of yearning and expectation, of recurrence and difference. 
  • It is a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables which create a feeling of "fixity and flux, of surprise and inevitability.
Major Ideas: 
  • Rhythm can differentiates us and it creates a sense of consolation.
  •  Recurrence and change. 
  • Has an "oceanic" feeling. 
  • The rhythm of the emotion determine the texture of the sounds. 
Cool Quotes: 
  • "Rhythm is a form cut into time" (Ezra Pound). 
  • "Whitman creates through the rhetorical rhythm of these lines the very urgency of fundamental memory triggered and issuing forth." 
  • “A reminiscence sing.”
]]> 2021-04-13 15:37:44 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1412529883 Help Me O Heavenly Muse https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1414043660 (Monica Probert)
Notes:
  • Poetry can be connected to feelings, passion and mania
  • Poets are trying to give the audience reactions that can't be controlled
  • Both the things that we can control and things that we cannot create the art of poetry
  • Many poets accept with open arms " manifest [signs] of long, unconscious inner work,”
  • "The poem is a genie that comes out of the bottle to liberate the reader’s imagination, the divinity within. "
Major Ideas:
  • "There is no true poetry without conscious craft, absorbed attention, absolute concentration."
  • Poets find inspiration from their muses
Cool Quotes:
  • “I think, therefore I am” - René Descartes,
  • "Sometimes I think; and sometimes I am" - Paul Valéry
  • "Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will,”- Shelley

]]> 2021-04-13 21:22:21 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1414043660 In the Beginning Is the Relation 24yee6132 https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1414121300 (Miranda Yee)
Notes:
  • "Language has become strange in this urgent and oddly self-conscious way of speaking across time." 
  • The author Edward Hirsch focuses on the relationship "I and a You" by explaining the relationship between the Lyric Poem, writing, and reading poetry. 
  • Lyric Poem: Has a speech and a song. This also can be unsettling. 
    •  "Words are ready to be vocalized." 
    • "Reading poetry is an act of reciprocity, and one of the great tasks of the lyric is to bring us into the right relationship to each other."
    • "It is a particular kind of exchange between two people not physically present to each other"
  • Reading Poetry: This is a medium of language that can be able to connect deeply with others. 
    • Has a stronger relationship between the reader and the writer. 
Major Ideas:
  • "The message in the bottle is a lyric poem and thus a special kind of communiqué." 
  • Lyric Poems are short and effective by their passionate, concentrated, and intense lyrics. 
Cool Quotes:
  • "I made it out of air." -  W. B. Yeats 
  • "Many poets have embraced the New Testament idea that In the beginning was the Word, but I prefer Martin Buber’s notion in I and Thou that In the beginning is the relation.”

]]> 2021-04-13 22:00:45 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1414121300 Metaphor: A Poet is a Nightingale 24krishnan6841 https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1414366807 Charu Krishnan
Notes:
  • Poems could be considered to be metaphors of their own, and they can include metaphors within them.
  • Through poems, poets create and restore relations between things that don't have anything in common, therefore invoking all kinds of thoughts and emotions.
  • Kennings: compound expressions in Old English and Old Norse poetry with metaphorical meanings.
    • Ex: referring to the sea as "swanrad" ("swan-road") or referring to a ship as "oar-steed".
Major Ideas:
  • Metaphors are an intimate thing; while the poet issues the metaphor, the reader acknowledges it and makes an effort to find meaning in it. It's a "transaction" that results in both parties actively engaging in deep thoughts and emotions.
  • All of this ends up encouraging the reader to delve deeper into poetry and understand it better, s well as using their imagination actively.
Cool Quotes:
  • "Poetry is made of metaphor. It is a collision, a collusion, a compression of two unlike things: A is B."
  • "...a metaphor transfers the connotations or elements of one thing (or idea) to another. It is a transfer of energies, a mode of interpenetration, a matter of identity and difference."
  • "...the poet enlists the reader’s intellectual and emotive involvement and [...] the reader actively participates in making meaning in poetry."

]]> 2021-04-14 00:08:20 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1414366807 In Plain American Which Cats and Dogs can Read 24gonzalez6390 https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1414785346 Joaquín González
Notes:
  • Poetry is neither singing nor speaking. It is a verbal art directly linked to speech.
  • The 'self-conscious' words mark the way words behave in rhythmic lines.
  • The language poems use allow the reader to capture reality in a special way and make them learn more.
Major Ideas:
  • Rather than speech, poetry is a verbal art
  • Poetry capture reality for thee reader
Cool Quotes:
  • “not in Spanish, not in Greek, not in Latin, not in shorthand, / but in plain American which cats and dogs can read!”
  • "marks the poem as a verbal construct is the self-conscious treatment of the words themselves"
  • "Poetry is not speech exactly—verbal art is deliberately different than the way that people actually talk"
]]> 2021-04-14 02:49:35 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1414785346 It Is Something of an Accident That You Are the Reader and I the Writer 24quintero78851 https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1416678943 Marite Quintero
Notes:
- Poetry is described as going" beyond mutuality,  identification, into identity itself", as well as creates its own autonomous world.
- In a way, the poem lets itself be read while the reader simply listens.
- Lyric poetry is a form of verbal materialism or an art of language
Major Notes:
- Poetry arouses and intensifies a spiritual desire
- Writing embodies while reading contacts.
- A poem is a creative act that can is finished incompletely and abstract moment for the final product in the work. 
Cool Notes:
- "The reader "exists" on the horizon of the poem."
- “Poetry is a soul inaugurating a form.”
- “There is then creative reading as well as creative writing,”

]]> 2021-04-14 14:31:50 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1416678943 In the Beginning Is the Relation 24flores63961 https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1416702898 Adrian Flores
Notes:
- Reading poetry is an act of "reciprocity".
- The relationship between the author and the writer solely depends on the text.
- Poetry is a voicing, a calling-forth.
Major Ideas:
- The "lyric poem" is a highly concentrated and passionate form of communication.
- Reading poetry is a way to connect even more deeply with yourself, and even with others.
Cool Quotes:
- "When I recite a poem I rein-habit it, I bring the words off the page into my own mouth, my own body."
- "I become its (poem) speaker and let its verbal music move through me as if the poem is a score and I am its instrumentalist, its performer."
]]> 2021-04-14 14:36:23 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1416702898 Give a Common Word the Spell https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1416709981 Gabriel Hasson
Notes
- Poetry charts the change in language
- When you recite poets out loud it sounds like a poem
Major ideas
- Precision in poetry is very important, it gives your words depth and importance.
- By doing this you can convert the common word into a spell.
Quotes:
“Belongs to no-one and to everyone”
“The poet creates it; the people, by recitation, re-create it. Poet and reader are two moments of a single reality.”
“Poetry charts the changes in language, but it never merely reproduces or recapitulates what it finds.”

]]> 2021-04-14 14:37:38 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1416709981 The Wave Always Returns https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1416810638 Sebastián Odriozola
Notes
- We participate in a poems flow, we give ourselves to the rhythm, to the process of merging.
- A wave is made up by composition and muscle, and the same goes for lyric poetry.
Major Ideas
- Renewal is the "Pivot of lyricism"
- A poem moves from the eye to the ear, to the inner ear and then to the inner eye.
Quotes:
"It guides our reflections. It actualizes an intuition flowing deeper than intellect."

"We use our senses in poetry, but it is a mistake to try to use our senses everywhere."

"The poem plunges us from the visible to the invisible, it plunges us into the domain of psyche, of soul. It takes us into the realm of the demonic."]]> 2021-04-14 14:56:25 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1416810638 The Reader Setting Out https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1416938401 David Villarreal
Notes
-The author addresses the reader as his equal
-Poetry is good at evoking emotions from the reader
Major Idea
-Reading poetry is a "point of departure"
-Poetry can help connect people from different backgrounds
Quotes
- "Beginning is not only a kind of action, it is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness."

]]> 2021-04-14 15:19:54 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1416938401 To The Reader Setting Out https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1417057108 Kate Dutcher
- To read a poem is to depart from the familiar, to leave all expectations behind.
- Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.
- Reading is a point of departure, an inaugural, an initiation.
- Poetry is a way of inscribing a feeling of awe.
- With reading poetry comes "a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness.”]]> 2021-04-14 15:41:05 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1417057108 Mere Air, These Words but Delicious to Hear 24gaul6429 https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1417070230 Aidan Gaul

- The author begins the article by recalling an anecdote when he read the phrase "Mere Air, These Words but  Delicious to Hear" at a Greek history museum.

- Poetry is a process. From the syllables to the words, from phrases to the sentence, from sentences to rythm, mood, and emotion.

- You can't paraphrase poetry because if you change the way a poem is read you lose the original meaning

- Poets are language workers

- Poems make it seem as if the universe "reveals itself through the mother tongue."

- “you must love the words, the ideas and images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all”

- "if a poem can be paraphrased, then the sheets haven’t been rumpled, poetry hasn’t spent the night."

]]> 2021-04-14 15:43:30 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1417070230 Stored Magic https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1417285360 Paulina Flores
Notes
- Poems are meant to be somewhat timeless
- Poems can survive through changes in society and in the world
-  Poems are like a "living eternity"
- The reader completes the poem by their own experiences and perspective
Major Ideas
- Poems being timeless is like stored magic
Quotes
- "It crosses frontiers and outwits the temporal. It seeks to defy death, coming to disturb and console you."
- "True poetic practice implies a mind so miraculously attuned and illuminated that it can form words"
- "You are reading poetry—I mean really reading it—when you feel encountered and changed by a poem, when you feel its seismic vibrations, the sounding of your depths."
- “There is no place that does not see you,”]]> 2021-04-14 16:21:19 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1417285360 Heartland 24costa6358 https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1417369482 Pablo Costa
Notes
- Poems aren't sometimes meant for someone specifically
- Poems choose the reader or in other words impact and appeal to the reader's heart
- Poems as talked in heartland are such as messages in bottles. Tossed in the ocean not with the best hopes but one day it will be picked up and appreciated by someone
Major Ideas
- Poems take a long time to reach the perfect reader which becomes the secret addressee]]> 2021-04-14 16:37:29 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1417369482 Heartland https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1417370375 Alejandro Romo

Notes
- It in itself is written in a very poetic or metaphorical way.
- Talks about what a poem is and how it and how it is a way of taking you to another place or how it took a long way to get to you.

Major idea
- Poems take us and to places and manifest a message for us.

Quotes
- "A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the—not always greatly hopeful—belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps."]]> 2021-04-14 16:37:40 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1417370375 The Immense Intimacy, the Intimate Immensity https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1417380870 Dani Garza
Major Ideas:
  • reading poetry can give your information that you won’t find anywhere else because it can be intimate

Notes:
  • poetry can be very intimate that it is able to get under your skin
  • poems are not just emotions, they are experiences
  • The spiritual life is embodied in language
  • Poets are those who are carried into the world poetry creates that they are taken by the intensity that poems have.
  • Emily Dickinson says she doesn’t know poetry, but she knows what it does to her
     
    • How poetry can be anything and be found in many things, and can still produce an emotion or reaction
  • She says only strong poetry is able to produce such a response.
  • With poetry, she wants to be surprised and to be stunned.
  • For the author, reading poetry is an act of the most immense intimacy, of intimate immensity. They are shocked by what they see in the poem but also by what the poem finds in them. 

Cool Quotes:
  • “a poem is able to carry you to another plane of time, outside of time.”
  • “a poem needs a reader to posses it and to be possessed by it.”

    • I think that means that for poetry to have a lasting impact on the reader, by “possessing” the reader, they are able to carry the experience and the teachings for their entire life.

]]> 2021-04-14 16:39:40 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1417380870 Harmonious Sisters, Voice, and Vers https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/lft08bl3ec22xryt/wish/1417399422 Jimena Martinez
notes
  • The word lyric comes from a greek word meaning musical instrument
  • The musical element of the poem is from its origin in singing chanting and recitation
  • Before the eighteen hundreds there were no distinction between melodic lyrics such as the songs of Shakespeare’s plays, and the nonmusical written lyrics, such as sonnets
  • During the renaissance writers began to write for the readers instead of for performance
  • They started to have more visualizing aspects in their poems

major ideas
  • The poem is made to appeal to the ear

quotes
  • "The poem appeals to the ear. At one boundary we have the lyric as a poem dependent upon music for its full effectiveness. "
  • "The poet was once a performer, a bard, a scop, a troubadour."
  • " The lyric became an instrument of greater inwardness. "
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