Poetry and Understanding it

What poetry means to me, is that it is a way to speak out in many ways; such as rhyming, free styling, or haiku's while adding emotion and powerful words that makes the audience more attentive. It's either showing the message up close and front, or making the message discreet within the lines for the audience or reader to puzzle the pieces and find out what the poem means. I learned that many poems can be interpreted differently in ways more than one, through different points of views. The structure of poetry also showed me beauty within creating different poems on different topics. It can go from making a stair cased poem, to a waterfall like poem, a poem that doesn't have much punctuation, or making the poem have capitals in the beginning of each line or not. I feel that this unit showed me to be more creative than other units throughout this course.

A poem that caught my attention was from the movie "The Grey" starring Liam Neeson.

Once more into the Fray
-Jon Treloar

Once more into the Fray...
Into the last good fight I'll ever know.
Live and die on this day...
Live and die on this day...  

Education and the students

Education is core in life. To me, learning is a great way to expand the mind and prepare students for the real world. That being said, it really depends on the student's attitude towards learning and how enthusiastic the teacher is. What I mean about the student's attitude is how interested they are in the subject or course. If they're really interested, what I think they would do is enjoy the class, have a positive attitude towards learning that subject and are willing to make the mistakes, learn from those mistakes and keep moving forward in their education. For the teachers, it's really their attitude towards teaching the student and subject with the high level of education they have been taught by their professors in order to become a teacher in that subject. In conclusion, education is great if the students are engaged in the subject/course that they enjoy in and if the teachers can have a great attitude towards teaching students and the subject.

Writer's Quote

Oprah Winfrey. She was born in January 29, 1954. Throughout her life she has been an American television host, actress, producer, philanthropist and entrepreneur. She hosts a show called, "The Oprah Winfrey Show." It is known for interviews with celebrities and discussions of social issues. Although it seems like she has a great life going on and all, she had a rough past; being raped at the age of nine and became pregnant at 14. What's even worse is, her child died in infancy. Aside from all of that, today she is a successful person making a difference in the world.

"When there is no struggle, there is no strength." -Oprah Winfrey.

What this quote means to me is something powerful and says a lot about grit, and having the will to keep going. To be good or strong at something, you must first struggle through it. Eventually, if you keep striving to try and become greater at something, that is the strength you are building at what you want to learn. Something I can relate to this quote is that I want to become better at the guitar, and improve my writing. What will happen is that I will struggle, but if I keep at it, then I will become better.