Hello, my name is Brent Nicol and my fun fact was that I like to fish and hunt and I have a big family in my hometown. I went to Fairbanks High School which is a pretty small school near Marysville. I stayed busy in high school with sports and played football, track, and basketball. My major is Agricultural Systems Management and, after college, I plan on using my degree in sales and marketing of crops and/or farm machinery.
The author I did research on was Tim Seibles. I found his poetry interesting do to that he expresses the problems of life through comedy while also being able to be serious in certain points of his poetry. He also uses cartoon imagery and cartoonish muscling of language. I found this interesting because when I think about poets and authors I don't think about them using something as juvenile as cartoons. But, Tim Seibles makes it work to his advantage and he is good at what he does. He earned multiple awards for his works such as the Open Voice Award and the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for poetry.
My favorite poem out of the ones we read was Bury Me in a Free Land. This was my favorite because Francis Harper shows her passion and beliefs throughout the poem. The poem shows that she was a strong woman and was not afraid to stand her ground. In this poem I noticed that she does an AABB rhyming scheme throughout the poem. The language in the poem stands out to me in the first four lines. She starts out her poem with a strong statement that she rolls with throughout the poem.
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A piece of writing that inspired me was a poem called The Dash. I have heard this poem read at funerals I have attended, and it inspires me every time I hear it. The poem talks about how on a tomb stone there is a birth date and a date of death. But, there is the dash in between the two dates. The poem states that the dash is the most important part of the tomb stone because during that dash, the person who past away lived their life to the fullest and influenced the people around them. This poem has inspired me to try to live my life to the fullest and to have fun as much as I can because life is short.
Hi Brent, I also chose Tim Seibles's style of writing very different and fun. Because of this, I read his poem in the home work "For Brothers Everywhere". I don't know if you read it but I think you would enjoy it. He uses his cartoonish way of describing things to describe a pickup basketball game. Both are right up your alley.
ReplyDeleteHi Brent, I also found Tim Seibles poetry more interesting than most. I like how Tim used the cartoon imagery as well, I feel that it paints a picture for the reader, making his work easier and more fun to read. He is good at making things 'cartoonish' yet still being serious and getting his message across.
ReplyDeleteI also enjoyed the poem "Bury Me in a Free Land" because I liked how she really showed she could compete and, as you said, stand her ground, against anyone. Even though it was looked down upon in that time period.
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