Blog Response #6: Find A Poet

The poet that appealed to me the most was Jack Richards. His poems were very descriptive and made it easy for me to get a picture in my head of what he was describing. The way that he was writing made it seem as if he was watching someone. It also seemed as if he and that person were one, as if he could feel as they were feeling. I also liked this poet because he writes with a lot of emotion. Throughout the poem it had some rhyming but when it was used it didn’t seem forced. This poem also appealed to me because in the poem it wasn’t imaginary some of the things that he wrote were very true in the life of a dancer.

I can relate the poem Lonely Dancer to my life because I also take dance classes and he captured the way that some dancers feel when they are dancing for an audience, or even just practicing. When you are out in front of an audience all of your fears go away and you just dance with your heart.

My personal definition of poetry is a poem that captures a feeling and you are able to picture or feel what they are writing about. I think that the best types of poems are when you can feel the emotions that they are try to portray and you can imagine what they are talking or writing about. I think that a good poem must flow well and not just be a bunch of random words put together on a piece of paper.