I, too, really enjoyed the first assignment. It was nice to write a poem that “springs from the candy” rather than thinking about the medicine first and foremost. So much of what I have to write in other classes is almost pure medicine, so it was nice to try and clean out some of the creative cob-webs for this assignment.
That being said, I am both interested and anxious to see how it turned out. I have never actually had to write poetry for any of my English classes before, and did not spend much time on poetry when we did discuss it in high school, so I’m up in the air as to whether or not what I wrote was any good. I’m also very curious to see other people’s poems. There definitely seems to be a nice range of creative minds in the class and a variety of writing backgrounds, so I’m sure there will be some great stuff.
On the topic on Tuesday’s reading, they are definitely a group of confusing poems. I gathered from “Blah-Blah” that the poem was a list of some famous repetitious words, and noticed that there is definitely a theme of America and famous historical phrases/events in E.E. Cumming’s “’next to of course god America I” (with such lines as “oh say can you see by the dawn’s early” and the reference to jingoism), but “Three Sections from my Life” seems to have no rhyme or reason to it.