Late Assignment - Emotional Poetry

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation" ~ Robert Frost

Poetry is an emotion filled style of writing because it involves people expressing themselves, and their innermost feelings. Poetry is people pouring those feelings out onto paper whether they're good or bad.

Both of the poems we read in class were similar in the way that they were both about childhood. The poem "Childhood Memories" talked about having a bad childhood and the other "A Childood Forgotten, A Childhood Lost" the author wrote about not remembering their childhood.... The tone and feeling of the poems matched the subject in a way that you wouldn't expect.

The poems that we read in class tugged at the heart strings. They made me feel deeply sad, sympathetic and angry! I was angry about what had happened to both the writers and I was angry that there was nothing I could do about it.

Did I like or dislike the poems? Well, that's a loaded question. If it was just random writing on a piece of paper then I would definitley have enjoyed them. They were very well written. However, this was people pouring out their hearts and expressing how they truly feel inside and that kind of breaks my heart. The reality of it was important though, it's not like everything is perfect all the time.

Once again, the subject of childhood matches the tone of the poems. We may not always like to read about childhood in this context but as unfortunate as it is this is the reality of some peoples lives.