ENGL 2003: Introduction to Poetry

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The poem “The Silken Tent” by Robert Frost is about a woman being described as a silken tent with all of its different components. Frost tries to set up a picture in your mind and the setting is midday summer. The tent is a symbol of a women showing her characteristics as a strong woman because is says, “its supporting central cedar pole.”  The word freedom and bondage are two opposites of each other. The use of the words “slight bondage” gives more flexibility but you have certain restrictions. I started to think that being in a marriage could be a type of slight bondage because your “tied” to another individual but there are certain things you just can’t or your not allowed to do anymore. But being married doesn’t mean that all freedom is taken away from you but if you get a divorce your no longer bound to that person. Everyone has the right to freedom but due to society and rules all of us are held bondage to a certain extent. There is an alliteration in the 3rd line that says, “sunny summer breeze” and it follows a rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD GG.

Link to original post: https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/goldpoetrysp2012/2012/03/19/freedom-and-bondage/

Original post—-> https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/goldpoetrysp2012/2012/03/18/the-silken-tent-3/

The poem “The silken tent” by Robert Frost, to me it was a bit weird by the way it is word and clarification. Each line mean something give us a feeling of something. In addition, something that have two type or meaning in this poem.

Ex.

“At midday when the sunny summer breeze”

This line gives a relaxing feeling of a windy summer. The part that makes me wonder is the use of bondage in this poem.  However, that bondage is rather a unique word to use in this poem.  As the poem, describe a female as a tent using metaphoric.

The book Paradise lost by John Milton which I read back in high school. The story is written in a poetic form. It has a lot of word that has a different meaning as that tell the story differently depending how you know the story.

The Silken Tent Video

Since i really couldnt elaborate much on danin schools ive decided to elaborate on a famouse danin school peot named matsou basho, ive posted it on the wiki website. I did not delete the original post but i did add on to it. the link is below….

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danrin_school

Hi class, i wanted to further elaborate on my wiki assignment as a second post. on the previous post i wrote that i had a hard time, but i didn’t explain why. when i began doing the assignment i found that it was pretty hard to find a stub that i was interested in. But when i did, the schools online library would have little to no info on it. so i kept on looking for a new stub. finally when i did, I wrote about a poem called Crow’s First Lesson, I elaborated about the author and showed a copy of the poem. But someone kept on taking the info down, after I read the persons explanation the stub has a copy right, so i couldn’t add anything to it. so after feeling good and doing the wiki assignment, I had to find another one. it took some time to find another good topic that I can add to.

The main problem that I faced was that many stubs had some info on it, but i personally was looking for one that was completly empty so i can fully add to it. their was a couple of stubs that  i took the initiative and did research on and looked to see what i can add to and how good it would be, but i changed my mind a couple of times on some stubs. I was able to find a stub and it was for  Charlotte Champe Stearns. I was pleased with this one as a last resort because it was actually empty, except for one line. I was able to put sub topics and add a couple of links and paragraphs. It was mostly the experience of adding something to wiki that i found was worth doing. And i encourage everyone to at least share in this action of contributing to wiki, you never know but you might enjoy it and constantly add to wiki as a hobby.    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Champe_Stearns

Enjoy your summer

for my wiki assignment i would be elaborating on darin school. from my knowlege it is a nschool of haiku peotry, but i will continue my research and figure out what its reallly about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danrin_school

Regarding to Final

This is the link to the other poetry class.

I said:

“Hi, I am currently taking the other poetry class available at city tech; bought by Prof. Gold. I am just wondering how students in this class feel about poetry?
Were you forced to take this class?
Was it of interest?
What is your favorite line, rhyme?
Is there a poet you admire?
This question is open to anybody in open lab, students can answer, and would appreciate a response from the professor teaching this course.

Enjoy your summer, thanks.”

To me poetry is a complex form of art, for instance visual art such as paintings, sculptures, photographs and so on; all have their special kind of technique. The artist creating the piece is trying to express a certain emotion or idea as best they can to catch the viewers attention. In order to create a masterpiece, a simple idea turns into a long uneasy procedure to have the message properly expressed. Poets are literary artist that go through this same situation, and depending on what they want to express it can vary because of the emotion being focused on. Visual art can be easily “looked” at, but the quality of the work may or may not truly be “seen” or appreciated. Poetry is read therefor “looked” at, but when read out loud the message is “heard” and truly expressed from reader to listener. Since art is formed by human creativity and genius, poetry is the best form of art that to me properly expresses emotion with a message or lesson.

I agree in the artistic, expressive and emotional value poetry has with jsylvesterd and islam. But isn’t poetry when looking at the fundamentals always literary. When its narrated is it not read off some kind of text. The word literature is from the latin word “litterea” meaning letter, you have to use the letter to form words, and words are read or spoken. You can’t have complete poem or any at all without writing it down, and the whole purpose of writing it down, is so it can be read by others.