Final Blog Post

After taking this course I learned about the different forms of poetry and how they can affect readers. To me personally poetry takes on many forms of media such as music, digital and fine arts, and cinema. I didn't really understand the purpose of writing poetry except for one trying to express themselves and I didn't realize how much of an impact poetry had when trying to deliver a message about different problems that certain communities must face. Learning about the different forms of poetry also puts into perspective the mindset other artist and poets have when coming up with their own poetry.

Given what I've learned about the last 100 years or so I'd say the role of an artist today is to inspire and bring people together as one through an expressive art form.

Red Raven

No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous.

The scarlet stains upon the body and especially upon the face

Here was a sharp turn at every twenty or thirty yards, and each turn a novel effect.

The panes here were scarlet --a deep blood color. 

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling

Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,

Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before

One by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel

Bore aloft a drawn dagger, and had approached, in rapid impetuosity

Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,

In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore

Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door,

            

            With such name as “Nevermore.”

Swept Under- Final Presentation

Currents, thoughts, currents

Swimming, floating, swimming

Swimming, swimming, swimming

Breathe, stroke, breathe, stroke

Swimming, swimming, swimming

Thinking, contemplating, wondering

Swimming, floating, swimming

Forgetting, Remembering, Forgetting

Swimming, swimming, swimming

Rest, swim, rest, swim

Swimming, splashing, gasping

Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle

Gasping, sinking, drowning

Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle

Sinking, drowning, dying

Think, panic, think, panic

Thinking, panicking, dying

Swim, fight, swim

Thinking. STOP THINKING! SWIM!

SWIMMING, SWIMMING, SWIMMING

Gasping, breathing, gasping

Gasping, wheezing, panting

Gasping, inhaling, choking

Wheezing, exhaling, gasping

Free, safe, free

Thoughts, currents