Blog for this Week

I just got done reading the article and poem we had to read for today. I must say that the What makes a master piece article was pretty confusing. I am looking forward for a more clear explanation of it in class. What I got from the master piece article is that we do not know what makes up a master piece but we know pretty much just about everything that does not make a master piece. Yet some of these elements that do not make a master piece can be in a master piece. I found it hard to understand the concept of not having a beginning and an ending since you have to have both of those things in order to have something. Unless of course, someone is talking about the universe which in a way is a master piece that has no ending and we know of no beginning. I did really enjoy the Ars Poetica by Archibald MacLEISH. I found it really cool how the author describes what a poem should be but does so in a way that is very unfamiliar to me. I really enjoy the descriptions he uses such as a poem should be wordless as the flight of birds. To me I feel like atleast hear he is saying that a poem in theory needs to be wordless to be weightless to take on flight like birds, which is beautiful. The ending of this particular poem is one that I really enjoy because as I read it is basically saying that a poem should not say but do things. Which I find to be a pretty powerful ending for this particular poem.