My First Best Friend by Jack Prelutsky kind of reminds me of a Shel Silverstein poem. It was playful, humorous, and had a punch line at the end, reminding me of last week's class discussion.
The Dancer by David Tucker evoked me to visualize an image while I was reading. This was a poem I re-read a few times in order to make sure I understood each line. There was one line that particularly appealed to me. Tucker described the dancer spinning as 'a blue rose on a nail,'- The blue pertaining to the color leotard the dancer was wearing which the author informed the reader of in the beginning of the poem.
Summer Job by Richard Hoffman was a piece that I could not understand how it was considered poetry. It seemed more like paragraph exert from a book. As my schooling went on, I became more familiar with many different types of poems- free verse, non-rhyming, distinctive line structures- but this particular poem caught me off guard. The entire verse is dialogue from one person. I feel like it had an underlying message, but I had a hard time figuring it out.
The Catch by A.E. Stallings I feel might still have me puzzled. When I first read it, certain lines in the poem made me think that it was about a husband and a wife who had a child and the child was putting a strain on their relationship. Then I re-read it and felt that maybe it was not that simple to understand (poems always have me critically analyzing them since they can be so complex at times.) Other lines did not fit with my interpretation. However, I still feel as though the poem is about a couple who is struggling with their relationship. What that struggle may be, I have not yet determined. Or maybe my original interpretation was correct and I am just over thinking it...
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