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.

The Monstrumologist

Book: The Monstrumologist
Author:Rick Yancey
Pages:22-70
Week:2/20/14
Prompt How have your feelings changed as you’ve been reading?

The Monstrumologist so far is a great book. In the beginning of the book the Monstrumologist found an Anthropologist. An Anthropologist is a monster with no head and its mouth in its stomach. They were said to be extinct but I just recently found out that they are not extinct in North America. They are coming expanding, growing in numbers. Now the Monstumologist and Will Henry ar in a fight to move them back.

What I have found out from were I left of. Is that the Anthropologist had a baby the way they have a baby is way different then how humans have it. They find a victim and then they basically throw up in there victims mouth. After they do that they go and find another victim till they die but for each victim they have. The Anthropologist feeds on his victim until the baby ends up hatching.

The Monstrumologist and Will Henry found a little baby anthropologist in its victims stomach. Immediately the doctor killed the little anthropologist in a slow painful death. They put it in ajar with a poison in it and as the Anthropologist drowned. The Monsturmologist stood up late didn't
 sleep and didn't eat until he finished finding a way to kill the Anthropologist. Now Will Henry and the Monstrumologists plan is in motion.

"The Dark Forest"

Life of a blogger and benefits

Over the year my blogging has improved way more then I thought. It has talked more about the book and explained what is going on in the book. My blogging has all so improved in word choose. I am no longer using the words of a sixth grader. I am even trying new words out and see if they fit with the story. One of the blogs I believe I have mostly improved on was "The Monstrumologist". I believe I improved on this blog he most because with this blog I had the book Write at my side with a dictionary.

Blogging has also improved my everyday life language. Now when I use a word like bad or good it doesn't seem natural. It has helped me in class to understand words more in depth. I encourage people to blog more often because it has helped me in everyday life and I hope it will help you.Over all blogging is an interesting experience.

The Monstrumologist

Title: The Monstrumologist
Author:Rick Yancey
Week:2/13/14
Pages: 0-22
Prompt:Thinking about what you just read, draw the picture that appears in your mind.

"A cross between Mary Shelley and Stephen King." - VOYA
"Yancey takes the violence of Darren Shan's 'Cirque du Freak' to thrilling new level in this sophisticated tale"- School Library Journal

This book so far is a thrilling, mysterious and creepy book. The Anthropophagus are coming back from extinction. The Anthropophagus is a monster that has no head and its mouth is near its stomach. It was said to be extinct in North America till one day an old man with a straw hat came to a house owned by the monstrumologist and his assistant Will Henry. What the old man brought was pure horror an Anthropophagus in North America. They are in the race to kill all of them before they multiply.

Will Henry and the monstrumologist are way different people from what I have found out so far. The monstrumologist is a very strict and hardworking person he is always trying to find new monsters and protect people from it. Will Henry from my insight I first thought he was a zombie brought back from the grave. Later I learned that he was taken by the monstrumologist after his parents died

"A cup of coffee is all you need"

All the land belongs to you, a brick house and a little yard .We see her peacefully dead in her bed need to cry for years , a cup of coffe is everything.

My found poetry is basically about you having something that will let you let go of everything and forget it. In this poem the comfort item as some might call it is coffee. Its says that when someone dies the next day you have to live with it for the rest of your life, so have a cup of coffee.