Colorblind-Counting Crows review

This song is a poem because there is feminine rhyme and a sort of rhythm to it. Just like any other poem or song, there is meaning. I see this song being about someone who has gone a type of numb. Not necessarily a physical numb, but more of an emotional and mental numb. He says that he's "colorblind", "taffy-stuck", "tongue-tied", and many other short descriptions of this feeling of numbness. I suppose any amount of things could have led him to this feeling. Possibly a break-up, a tragedy, anything that causes an immense amount of pain. Just like anyone who has had to deal with a tragedy, they assure all who are worried that they are fine. And the songwriter does just this. It was the musical line that first drew my attention, but then I looked into the lyrics and I loved it even more.

Colorblind-Counting Crows

I am colorblind 
Coffee black and egg white 
Pull me out from inside 
I am ready 
I am ready 
I am ready 
I am 
taffy stuck, tongue tied 
Stuttered shook and uptight 
Pull me out from inside 
I am ready 
I am ready 
I am ready 
I am fine 
I am covered in skin 
No one gets to come in 
Pull me out from inside 
I am folded, and unfolded, and unfolding 
I am 
colorblind 
Coffee black and egg white 
Pull me out from inside 
I am ready 
I am ready 
I am ready 
I am fine 
I am fine 
I am fine

Jeanne Marie Beaumont

Today is the day that she was a guest speaker in out class and I can honestly say that I loved it. I was so impressed and loved her style of writing. Granted, I only heard one of her poems, Afraid so, but it was incredible. I loved how she allowed for it to be set to images as well. I think it made her words just that much more powerful and meaningful.

Throughout the past week, I have been looking forward to tonight because of her reading. I already had my heart set on going, and it only got better when it would be accepted as a class absence. After todays class, I am even more excited to learn more about her as a poet and hear even more of her work.

Thank you so much for having her come to our class and do an extra poetry reading. I am truly excited to sit on it and be a part of the experience.

Roses

I found a fascination in the poems we read that talked about roses. It was interesting to see all the different aspects the rose had in each poem. In William Blake's poem, the rose referred to his love whom was sick. In Robert Burn's poem, he compared the feeling of love he felt to a rose. However, Dorothy Parker's view of roses was much more foul. She expressed that she was sick of roses and wanted something more than just a flower.

In class, Parker's poem erupted great conversation and opinions. At first, most agreed by saying that she was evil, rude, and selfish. I was one who agreed with this opinion. But, I thought deeper into it and realized that her feeling of wanting more could be coming from something entirely different than selfishness. We don't know her past; she doesn't state it in her writing. So, I started thinking that just maybe she isn't selfish. Maybe her heart has been broken so many times before by men who wooed her with roses and chocolates. It's as if she sees those symbols of romance as strictly just lies. Because of her possible past heartbreaks, she needs something a little more than a single rose with thorns.

The ways poets express through their writing.

There are numerous ways for a poet to express whatever emotion they feel towards a event, situation, or feeling. Depending on the individual poet, there style of writing varies. For example, a rapper's choice of words to express themselves varies drastically in accordance to Shakespeare. However, both writers works need to be looked deep into in order to take in and digest the full meaning and emotions behind the words. Because of the different variations and complexity, it makes poetry interesting and unique due to all the differences among every poem.

To further portray their individuality and emotion, literary elements are used to create a more definite image of what the writer wants to be projected in the readers mind. They use similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbolic statements and many others to define a certain point that they are determined to make.

What is a Poem?

A poem is any emotion that we feel. It's twisted and formed into whichever way the writer wants it to be portrayed as to the reader. Rhythm can be a twist, rhyme is a flow, and texture can be the way you try and make the reader feel. All of these things are ways in which writers try to express their deepest and most personal experiences and emotion, or even their least personal experiences.
Poetry can be used anywhere and for anything (not just for the lonely). We hear it everyday; it's in our music. It's in a writer's and a reader's mind. It may seem as if poetry is disappearing, but it's not. It's all around us. As long as we keep on living and feeling, there will be poetry.