Writing class: Artists Among Poets
What I learned this year:
One of the
earliest and most challenging things I learned this year is how to create and
use a blog. Online media has always been a challenge to me. Personally, I
prefer using paper over a computer, and I’ve never been one to express my
feelings to the world. Even though I know that nobody has read this blog, it
makes me happy to post on it. It is a new outlet to share with the world. Nobody
needs to read it, but it is there, ready to be seen.
Over the
class time I learned a brief summary of almost all the eras of poetry. We
started with simple stuff, like tying a poem to a piece of art. Then it got way
more complicated when we had to create a symbol. After that things started to
become super fun. It amazed me to learn how poetry tied into every art
movement. It seems that both artists and poets thrive to do the same thing.
Both want to express themselves and create something beautiful.
Some eras of art and poetry are
equally annoying. I always considered the people who made cubist art to be
crazy. I never expected to find that there were poets who attempted to do the
same thing with words. Truly, I highly doubt I will ever understand that era.
On the contrary, the list poems were fun. This class taught me so much about
the history of poetry so quickly that it is difficult to put into words. It
amazed me how early poetry was all about what the words said, and in the end,
with visual poetry, there seemed to be little to no words at all. All this
combined to give me a new appreciation for poetry, and art history.
It is hard to say what the role of
poetry in society today. We seem to be in this “post-modernist” era. The fact
that our era doesn’t even have a solid name yet just shows that we don’t actually
know where we stand today. Poetry seems to be an evolving art form. After learning
how poetry seems to fallow art, I would like to say that it would be easy to explain
where poetry fits in society today, but I can’t. It is hard enough to find
where art belongs in society today. As well as poetry and art fit together, the
two don’t really need each other. Poetry may thrive in videos and technology,
or it may find another place in society. It seems that all the past eras of art
and poetry still have their place in society. Poetry’s place in society today
depends on the people who read and listen to poems. Today, we are not limited
to the newspaper or local library to find poetry. Everyone has their own tastes
in poetry. Technology allows people to find whatever form of poetry they want
on the internet. Given our world’s reliance on technology, poetry’s future does
lean in the favor of video poetry. Still, nothing can be proven until it comes
to pass. In the end, where art fits in the society today is a question all artists
seek to find, but that shouldn’t be too surprising, doesn’t everyone seek to be
find a place for them and their work in this world?
