Blog #8

1. laughter and forgetting
This article analyzes another person's poem and breaks it down through it's meaning. for example, A ‘span’ is paratactic, like the distance between thumb and forefinger, which is the original meaning of ‘span’. This is throughout the article which helps decipher the poem and give an alternate view on how to construct and create a poem with variety.

2. studies in cultural politics in of education
In this source, it studies the gender differences and society's view on poems. It states within that schools tend to find that poetry to be a unimportant subject towards boys and that "implicated in discourses about poetry as an unsuitable genre for boys". It tends to not be seen a masculine, and therefore disregarded so within this it analyzes this and try to open the mindset of people who believe that poetry isn't suitable for males.

3.A poem and its context
Much like the first one, this reduces the poem into a context for the reader. The author declares that the word "poem" denotes both a product of poetry and a composition. He also believes that it has taken many forms and to completely understand a poem, one must understand the context it is being written in. He then analyzes a work to prove an example, This helps benefit readers to play empathy when reading a poem and understand on a much deeper level what he/she is reading.
4.Meditation
This poem takes us back to the 1700's where metaphorical meditation took place. Meditation poem soon became its own genres where it helped connect to the readers mind and soul. a meditative poem stresses the internal action of the poem as the soul or mind engages in acts of interior dramatization.

5. Limericks
The main focus on what we're going to be focusing on as a group, Limericks are a type of poetry that differ due to their rhythm. In fact there has been studies where Limericks were put to the test in order to  see the emotional responses and if they differed from person to person."Together, our data suggest that rhyme violations in Limericks may induce an emotional response beyond mere anomaly detection"