Response to Classmates Journal Week 9

response to Billy's Pedagogy Post week 10

I wonder if it has something to do with the point of view of the individual writing. I am not a careful talker from my point of view,it seems words spill easily in all directions. Some writers who are more guarded may be equally guarded in what they say. I admire and am even jealous of those who can do both the things I have trouble with. Write in a concise manner and speak with great clarity of thought, but it still disturbs my point of view, this silence. This waiting for the right word. I would not fair well in Asian cultures where silence is considered a good thing, a time to think.

It is not at all surprising that the Haiku is a poem particularly aligned with eastern thought, where silence in conversation and long contemplation before speaking is valued more that in western cultures. I wonder when Asian readers speak these poems if there is a greater amount of silence during the reading?

This value of silence and concise thought or value of volume and multiple levels of thought, may be something that forms much earlier in the human pshyche than we can imagine.

still, I think it is important to have both abilities in order to write the best poetry.

William Carlos William's poem "A Red Wheelbarrow" is an excellent example of concise thought that says much, another example is his poem "Apology." Yet, his poem goodnight has a great length, and I would argue is not as cautious.

I tried my hand this week and improving off of Wheelbarrow. It was very difficult not to try to say more. Yet, after a while going back to what seemed very simple to me the poems highly constricted form offers up a lot of meaning, even when the subject changes.