So far this school year, the 12th Grade English Class has been focusing on poetry. We took time throughout the first weeks of school to look within, see what is there, and pour it out on paper. We wrote poems called, “I Am” – an outer voice shouting and portraying who we are and why we are the way we are. We wrote poems called, “The Secret One Inside of Me” – an inner voice explaining what are things in this world that bother us, and what we feel about it. We then had an in depth study of the Anglo-Saxon period and heard about one of the most famous poets – Caedmon. This poet was an illiterate, herdsman, who felt comfortable and complacent just working with the cows at the barn. Denise Levertov, a Modern American Poet, gave us a picture of what he possibly experienced – the calling of God on his life. Caedmon had a revolutionizing event take place in his life, where God gave him a vision and told him that he was to write poems and sing them. When he asked God, “What am I to sing about?”, God answered, “Sing about the glories of my creation”. This was a phenomenal eye opener to all, where we learned that even though we are all just simple people living in this world, everyone has a voice and has something to say. So we got out of our comfort zones, and complacent mindsets and are getting ready for our Poetry Jam to be held in class on October 31st.
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