Prompt: Blog Post 1
What is one big idea or question that one or both of the poems on the syllabus this week make you think about? How has the poem shaped your thinking about this big idea or question?
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Adam J Gamboa
One big idea these poems got me to think about was the way imagery shows emotion and suffering. My way of thinking has been changed by the poems since I’ve realized I must go into deeper thinking into the imagery to fully understand what the speaker is saying and expressing.
Myosotis Oxios-Laureano (She/Her)
One big idea that the poem “Ulalume” by Edgar Allan Poe had me thinking about was the concept of loving someone such much even after they are gone. It got me to think and wonder if it made him go mad or delusional because of the pain he expressed in the poem from the passing of the person he once loved.
Chen Gong
It is common for poets to express strong emotions such as love and loss in their poems, which can lead to expressing feelings of pain and delusion.
Ping Wang (she/her)
Expressing emotions or personal choices can be done with borrowed objects, or scenes. Poe’s poem Ulalume borrows many descriptions of scenery and objects to express the author’s inner sadness and despair, and the reader can feel the author’s state of mind and emotions at that time through these words. To understand the depth of the poem, we need to understand the period the narrator is in and his/her background.
eliana dominguez
One of the most important lessons I gained from reading Edgar Allan Poe’s poems was the idea of how deeply love and grief can affect a person’s mental state. these different poems employ images to portray intense emotion and pain. This understanding changed my perspective and encouraged me to look into pictures more in order to better understand the speakers’ experiences and the suffering they caused.
Manuel Carreon (He/him)
One big idea that the poem “Ulamlume” by Edgar Allan poe had was the idea of using imagery words to describe the setting and as well as using descpritve words to set up the tone of the poem. While this idea isnt new to writing at all , it really got me thinking about using these ideas and tatics in my own writing. I could use descpretive words in a reptivie manner like Edgar Allan poe did in his poem to set up the tone in my writing or to foreshadow anything. I think its a good way to get the reader to get invested in the poem or writing by making them ask themselves questions such as “why does the author use this word repeatedly” or “could the author be setting something up with these specfic words hes using”?
Alicia Nicole Dekle
One idea that stuck with me in Poe’s poem was the cycle of grief and depression that one can find themselves stuck in. This really resonated with me because the speaker’s grief was so profound, it touched every line of the poem even though the reveal was not until the end. I found the love he held for his lover to be tragic, and also to reflect the human experience of losing someone you love. Even when he doesn’t realize it, the speaker has found himself coming back to where he also in a way buried the meaning to his life, and it reflects how humans going through grief feel like they cannot move past it, and like everything circles back to their lost loved one.
Gianni Coombs (he/him)
One big idea the poems gave me is how I should think about life and in the poem ‘The soul selects its own society” it shows that even though a lot of things that’s offered to you that may seem good doesn’t necessarily mean it’s good for you. It makes me feel like my soul has a desire of who I want to be and who i want to be around to have a stable and sucessful life and to always have hope and pray even after my worst days.
Matthew Alvarado
One significant idea that the poems made me reflect on is the concept strontg emotions that last forever. for example loving someone so deeply, even after they are gone. The intense emotion showed in the poems caused me to think about the nature of love and loss, and how these emotions can continue to persist long after the person we love is no longer.
Matthew Alvarado
One significant idea that the poems made me reflect on is the concept strong emotions. For exmaple loving someone so deeply, even after they are gone. The intense emotion showed in the poems caused me to think about love and loss, and how these emotions can continue to last long after the person we love is no longer.
Chen Gong
One big idea underlying Poe’s “Ulalume” and Dickinson’s “The Soul Selects Her Own Society” seems to be the notion of emotional isolation and the descriptively conscious action as to what or whom one allows into that inner world. Poe’s “Ulalume” is about emotional seclusion caused by grief. Dickinson’s “The Soul Selects Her Own Society” consciously creates a sort of solitude.
Tsering Choedon (Tse/Ring)
These poems make us think about whether isolation is a way to protect ourselves, like in Dickinson’s poem “The Soul selects Her Own Society”, or if it feels more like being trapped, as in Poe’s Poem ” Ulalume”. These both poems ask us to consider what it means to connect with others and the effect of being alone versus being close to someone.
Zarin Tasneem Nishat (She/her)
These poems get me thinking about how we choose who or what really matters to us and how those choices shape our lives. In The Soul Selects Her Own Society, Dickinson shows the soul as super selective, choosing only a few people to let in and blocking out everything else almost like saying, “This is my inner circle, and that’s it.” But then in Ulalume, Poe dives into how memories or past emotions can pull us back, even when we think we’ve moved on. Together, they make me realize that sometimes we choose our connections, and other times, they kind of choose us by sticking around in our minds and hearts.