Monthly Archives: October 2012

Jessie, Your poem is so intense! It’s about the narrator becoming completely fed up with their alcoholic mother. The narrator is clearly very angry, full of hate, and doesn’t want to see their mom anymore. What definitely works well in … Continue reading →

When I first read through this I thought of the of game “Magic the Gathering” because of the various colors and their faction, blue represented watery illusions and murky things that we couldn’t quite understand but what we knew was … Continue reading →

Sydney’s “I Lean and Loaf…” is a confusing dramatic monologue at first. But soon, she makes it evident that Whitman (Walt, I’m assuming, the famous American poet) has somehow awoken in our world. He’s come to find that life as … Continue reading →

Susan’s poem was very interesting. To me, it was a sort of blues poem with aspects of personification in it. In the poem Susan talks about her job and the things that she has to deal with. There are many … Continue reading →

I read Georgia Hertz’s poem, “After an Encounter with a Street Poet” for my peer response this week. Georgia did a great job incorporating the poetic devices of alliteration and repetition throughout her poem. Specifically in the first stanza, she … Continue reading →

Ian Titus Poem #2 Response for Matt Dooley I thought Matt did an excellent job with combining the seasons with a longing for this person the poem is addressed too.  I thought this was a clever parallel and made the … Continue reading →

Ian Titus Poem Response # 4 Jillian Cronin   Jillian’s poem was broken into four stanzas (a sonnet) that followed the rhyme scheme of A, B, A, B, C, D, C, D, E, F, E, F, G, G.  The poem … Continue reading →

Ian Titus Poem #5 Response for Taylor Dixon I really thought that Taylor did a good job with the Villanelle she wrote.  In the first stanza of the poem, we can see that the tone is already sad by the … Continue reading →

Finally. In this poem, the speaker is describing a moment spent with her mother drinking tea and reminiscing on the past, after the passing of the speaker’s grandmother. Using a variety of vivid images , the scene is painted in … Continue reading →

KT, I enjoyed reading your villanelle, “Hey Barkeep”. Your poem follows the format perfectly, incorporating great rhyming and like-sounding words for the middle lines of each stanza. Your poem is about a sad man at a bar who’s woman has … Continue reading →