A LEAGUE OF MEL'S OWN

A Whole New World

I never thought I could get into poetry...

"There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for hundreds of visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea."

As I sat in class, I couldn't believe how involved and interested I was in the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot. I never had been one to get into the deep, dark, metaphorical nonsense that was often presented to me in poetic form. However, this time was different; I don't know if it was because I was moved by what the poet was conveying or if it was merely the idea that I was understanding (or at least understanding in my own terms) the points and references made by the poet himself.
To further add to my poetical confusion, as Dr. Jerz presented more and more poetry I became more and more intrigued with poetry itself. To me understanding the poems had become a game. It was a code that needed to be deciphered. From that deciphering no wrong ideas could be concluded; every reader's interpretation was his own. I think that fact alone was what single-handedly turned me on to poetry.
As a result of my new found interest in poetry I stumbled upon a great website that lists 161 authors of modern american poetry (including greats such as Robert Frost, E.E. Cummings and T.S. Eliot). Do the poets of this modern era a favor and check out some of their work....remember poems were made to be read, it's up to you to do the reading.

Happy readings!
Mel :)