Final Poetry Blog Post:
I’m glad I chose to take this course because I feel it
helped me be less worried about speaking out loud in front of an audience. I’m
still not comfortable with it but I feel it opened me up a bit more and to me
that is growth. I have never thought I would do well in a poetry course because
I have never written poetry before but I have learned to enjoy the creative
writing process. I feel it’s important to have these creative writing skills
and I also feel that poetry is a wonderful way to learn these skills. Poetry is a way to understand
how language and symbol systems work. It is a worthy expression of emotion, or
deep feelings, and aesthetics, or a sense of what is beautiful about the world.
Poetry has taught me how to be unique, write what I feel and that everything is
art. Creative thinkers and makers provide their communities with joy,
interaction, and inspiration, but they also give thoughtful critique to our
political, economic and social systems, pushing communities to engage
thoughtfully and make steps toward important progress. Art is about connecting
with people’s emotions and showing your own emotions. It’s personal and at the
same time, universal. The artist provides society with emotions, color, and
texture. Artists come in to play on our emotions and subconscious
thoughts. Amazingly, artists know how to elicit these strong feelings by
creating images on canvas and clay. Artists sense things. They understand
the work by instinct, and they intensify what is going on. Then they show these
things to us in nonlinear languages so that we can absorb them and feel a deep
connection. Everything deep
that we experience: love, hope, faith, and courage, all the things we truly
care about happen in nonlinear ways. So, we need ways to access these
experiences and to communicate them. Poetry helps you to escape from the world
and just focus on your inner thoughts. In human history art was key to our social, cognitive
and communicative development. The
arts teach children to make good judgements about qualitative
relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and
rules show, in the arts, it is judgement rather than rules that show,
it teaches children that problems can have more than one solution and that
questions can have more than one answer, and celebrate multiple perspectives.
One of their large lessons is that
there are many ways to see and interpret the world. The role of the artist is connected to the role of
art, in whatever medium: oil on canvas, watercolor, charcoal, pencil, colored
pens, other canvas work, photography, computer art, sculpture, performance art,
theater, movies, TV, poetry, novels, literature, music, and dance. The artist
creates the art, but not out of thin air. Within a societal context, supported
and admired by the conditions of the time, the resources, the technology, the
intelligence, the knowledge and the economic conditions of the moment of the
creation of the art.
