Poetry Packet #1 weekly blog 1/16

     Let me start off by saying that usually I find poems understandable, but usually they are about love and or life, but I could not understand what these authors were trying to say. The language and style of writing was something that i myself was not used to I found myself turning to the online dictionary for several words. For example in the poem Where It passes, Untouchable the author used the word martyrdom and I do not know about anybody else but I have never in my entire 21 years of living never heard this word , but it is defined as the death or suffering of a martyr. Unrequited reticence just sounds so beautiful me from the poem Lens, even though when I read it I did not know what the two word meant I turned to Google yet again. Unrequited means not returned or  rewarded (in regards to a feeling like love) and reticence - reserve: the trait of being uncommunicative ; not giving more than necessary. However I did understand something , "There is so much clarity in drowning" - Ophelia, I took this as that the time in your life when everything is the clearest is when your drowning , not literally in water but just in your thoughts, your day to day activities and other things of that nature. This may not have been how the author meant it , but it is how i perceived it.
     The poem that I found most confusing was Descant I did not know how it was suppose to be read, or how it the lines even went together, to me it just seemed at bit all over the place  it went from talking about people like Dr. Vacancy and Mr. No  I assume, or maybe a play on words giving human attribute to a noun i was not really sure to talking about "[black gown & cap, expiration notice impaled up on a tong]", who even knows what that means?
     On the other hand even though these poems were quite confusing I can say that they have broaden my thoughts on poetry a good poem does not have to be about love or being hurt a good poem can be about anything you want it to be about, and at this point I am going to continue to read these poems until I grasp a better concept of them.