Response to the poetry unit

Before this class i was never in to poetry at all. Actually it was something i didn't look forward to in this class. For me i find it sometimes boring and hard to understand. I didn't like that fact that you could read a poem 10 times and get a different perspective each time. I like things that are concrete and have a clear theme and objective. Like an action movie, there is a main character who has some type of task he has to complete and you go along as he completes that task and then he's a big hero blah blah blah. In poetry everything is so vague and you never truly know what the author is trying to say unless you ask him. ( which i think the author would tell you anyway). The poems we read in class were in fact the opposite of what i thought they were going to be. they were very passionate and drew you in while listening. I always thought poetry as a list of metaphors in some crazy format left for the reader to interpret in there own way. But Brady showed us how easy it is to understand the themes using literary devices. She also picked poems that were far from boring and interesting to read