Poetry Reflection

Gustavo Guzman

Poetry Reflection
Week: 3/3/14

Poetry to me is many things it is a field of emotions, struggles,  and 

its a natural thing in life. Poetry has been around for centuries,

anything can be poetry. To me poetry is what I think about or what I write even if it doesn't have meaning it can still be poetry .Like the nonsense poem, what I am trying to say is that poetry can be made out of anything. Your thoughts can be poetry ,sentences as stanzas  and different thoughts as different poems. Poetry is in my heart now it has taken over and every time I hear someone talk if I focused I can make it into a poem, like a real poet.

Poetry is also open to everyone, anybody can be a poet. They may not be famous or be any good. If they put their heart and emotion in there poem they will know and

recognize their work. To me before I actually made a poem that I tried on I

would never see myself writing a poem. I feel like people doesn't take

inconsideration on how poetry is a way of healing it can relieve stress out in

words instead of in actions. Overall poetry should belong to everybody because

there are many benefits and beauties of poetry.

The life and experiences of a poet affect the write greatly, It is one thing to

write just because you have to and another to write because you feel it in your

heart. With people that write just because you can't really get into the poem

because there are no emotions. Then there are great poets like Edgar Allen Poe

that made here way to greatness by poetry and the effects on people. Edgar

Allen Poe's poems gave a chill down your back but there was also a hint of

sadness. People were affected by this and that's why emotion is an important

part of poetry because without emotion it isn't a poem.

"The Lost Years of Merlin"

Book: The Lost Years of Merlin
Author: T.A Barron
Pages:1-75
Week:3/3/14
Prompt: Summarize what you just read.

The beginning of the book starts with a boy (Merlin) washing up on ashore with the waves of Wales splashing on the sand. He doesn't seem to remember his name or anything else all he knows is a strange lady named Branwen is his mother named him Emrys. Branwen from what I know is a sorceress she heals people but with bad and good spells. Branwen and Emrys (Merlin) are not very like in there village. The towns people dont like Branwen because of her sorcery and Merlin is teased and picked on as the outcast.

Opinion: To me Branwen seems like she is an evil person trying to control Merlin.

(This is where it gets confusing) Emrys - Merlin
Emrys end up going on a journey to find who he is, he leaves his mother to go on a journey that will forever change his life. Emrys tries to find his real home and on his way he meets up with many extraordinary challenges and people. He fist builds a raft and gets away from his village. While on the raft he ends up stoping at a forest and entering the magical land of Fincayra. Then that is where Emrys meets up with a girl of the Druma named Rhiannon. She tells him of how he has to help her safe her people from the blight that will end up terminus the forest she live in. Merlin initially says no intending to find his memories of when he was little first.

While they are arguing they get ambushed by a group of Goblins. While they are scared Emrys uses his new found powers to protect himself and not Rhiannon. The Goblins see this and they go after Emrys. Till Rhiannon tricks them to take her and not Emrys. Later Emrys vows to safe her and now he has to fight his way through the goblins fortress.