Poetry

This week in Sweeney's English 102 Class we began talking about Poetry. We read a couple of different readings throughout the week. We read "The Rape of the Lock," "We Real Cool," "Harlem," "Hard Rock Returns...," and "Facing It." "The Rape of the Lock" was an extremely long poem but it wasn't to difficult to read. The story was about a young man who cuts off a lock of a woman's hair off and it turns into a huge deal. The other poems were about life, dreams, criminal legends, and Vietnam. All the poems were pretty decent; none in particular really caught my interest though. The poem called "We Real Cool" was only seven lines long and very simple but I thought it was unique how something that simple could be published. The poem "Harlem" was also extremely short and just simply talked about what happens to dreams when they are deferred. "Hard Rock Returns" is about all the tales of prisoners; that poem had a little bit more length to it but nothing too bad. The final poem we had to read this week was "Facing It" which was about Vietnam; that one was about the same length as the previous poem.