Intro to Poetry

I did not like reading the Introduction to Poetry. It was way too long. It took me a really like time to read it, and I did not think it was ever going to end. There were a lot of vocabulary words. Some of them were good words for us to know, but I think some of them should have been left out. I do not think that it needed to go into as much detail as it did with some things. For example, I think they could have left out most of the stuff about meter and the different marks that are used to denote unstressed and unstressed syllables. I thought the part about the figurative language was good. I liked how the book described what each of the types of figurative language was and then gave examples to help you understand it. By the time I was finished reading this section I had about eight pages of notes. It is probably a good thing that we did not have a quiz over this section because even though I took notes I probably would not have been able to find what I needed to answer the questions.
I liked reading the poems out loud in class. I think that was a good way to cover the poems without making us sit there and read them all to ourselves. It was hard to for me to pick a poem to read in front of the class. Especially since we were supposed to pick a poem that we had not read before. Another reason why picking a poem was hard was because I wanted to pick a poem that I understood. I also had to find a poem that did not have any words that I did not know how to pronounce. I ended up picking "Tell All the Truth, but Tell it Slant" by Emily Dickinson.