What Is A Poem? by Phillip Spotswood https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc Space for you to share 1 thing you learned about poetry from the reading, and 1 question you have that you want to discuss with the class. en-us 2022-01-12 17:38:52 UTC 2026-03-03 18:41:31 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f52e.png What is a Poem? https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991177211 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]]> 2022-01-13 20:18:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991177211 Poams https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991177471 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.]]> 2022-01-13 20:18:16 UTC https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991177471 What I learned https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991177647 I think I learned that poetry is more of a medium of pure emotion where as prose is a medium more of thought.]]> 2022-01-13 20:18:23 UTC https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991177647 pgspotswood https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991177689 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 ]]> 2022-01-13 20:18:25 UTC https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991177689 https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991178007 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.]]> 2022-01-13 20:18:40 UTC https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991178007 pgspotswood https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991178445 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” 
]]> 2022-01-13 20:18:59 UTC https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991178445 pgspotswood https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991178843 In the freedom of navigating a poem, there’s more necessarily more mental work involved ]]> 2022-01-13 20:19:15 UTC https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991178843 https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991178850 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?]]> 2022-01-13 20:19:15 UTC https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991178850 pgspotswood https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991179241 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 
]]> 2022-01-13 20:19:32 UTC https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991179241 Something I learned/ A question I have. https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991179553 Poems can be derived of pictures, not just words.
Some people find them useless, but how could it possibly be useless? 

]]> 2022-01-13 20:19:48 UTC https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991179553 pgspotswood https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991179640 Poems are often invested in making the familiar, strange; they’re capable of calling attention to truths or realities that go unnoticed ]]> 2022-01-13 20:19:52 UTC https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991179640 what is a poem https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991180198 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?]]> 2022-01-13 20:20:15 UTC https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991180198 What is a poem response: https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991180213 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?]]> 2022-01-13 20:20:16 UTC https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991180213 https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991180247 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 ]]> 2022-01-13 20:20:18 UTC https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991180247 https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991180288 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]]> 2022-01-13 20:20:19 UTC https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991180288 https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991181033 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.]]> 2022-01-13 20:20:54 UTC https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991181033 https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991181778 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.

]]> 2022-01-13 20:21:30 UTC https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991181778 j12norr https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991182128 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?]]> 2022-01-13 20:21:46 UTC https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991182128 https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991182507 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?]]> 2022-01-13 20:22:04 UTC https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991182507 https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991192979 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.]]> 2022-01-13 20:29:59 UTC https://padlet.com/pgspotswood/pc8kznydonbdaywc/wish/1991192979