Meeting #3 Minutes

Dead Poet's Society Meeting #3 Minutes

Present: Cindy, Caroline, Venessa, Valerie, Noah, Todd.

Motion for name change: Cancelled again due to the absence of our beloved Jerry

Todd
1. Yeats The Second Coming
-spent time focused on the 'gyre' image, which was created by Yeats. A general encouragement was pronounced that Poetry should be something unique. Create images and symbols, invent words and ideas (but always be ready to explain them!)

2. Todd Doubly Blind
-Contrast of spiritual and physical blindness
-Use of a punctuating rhyme scheme at the end of free verse.
-Idea that human kind will never cry out until they recognize they are blind spiritually.
-Allusion to Jesus healing a blind man by putting mud in his eyes.

Caroline
1. Caroline (possibly: Walking on Dragonflies)
-Contradiction of terms makes for an interesting comparison in thought.
-One can't literally walk on dragonflies.
-A sense of the fantastical. Good use of imagination and originality to help provoke thought and ideas.
-Is poetry limited to what we can understand of it?

Vanessa
1. Vanessa Selina Pierson (graveyard poetry)
-Very unique style of poetry, which is a fantastic addition to the group.
-Very vivid descriptions, which assault the senses.
-Good perspective. The graveyard perspective is one where good and bad memories flow just as easily.

Valerie
1. Valerie Al Purdy "Rhodedendron" inspired this poem > Celestial Citizens
-Description of Heaven, with a very different mix of elements.
-Based on Revelation 7:9-10. Some example are the "glass sea" and "tongues of fire"
-Elaborate description of simple concepts (or specific concepts) heightens the poetry.

Noah
1. Noah To See Lines in Her Name
-Very honest love poem about his future wife, whomever that may be.
-this woman is the most beautiful poetry to Noah. *sniff, tear* :)

Transaction
-language controls us (specifically English)
-Is that a positive or a negative thing?
-unique use of enjambment throught the poem (When a line is carried over the the next line in a poem)
ie. The dog ran toward
my house.
And ate my slipper.
-the bard

2. T.S. Eliot Journey of the Magi
-Superimposition of three different periods: Christ`s birth, death, and return.
Noah`s Essay on Journey of the Magi
-Closure - Birth of Christ leads to the death of other Religions
-Closure for the Magi
-What kind of closure is there for the reader?

Cindy
1. Gerard Hopkins The Caged Skylark
-Musical nature to Hopkin`s poetry.
-moved from being a Protestant to being a Catholic... his wife was not pleased...
-Comparison of Bird and Man
-Body is a cage for the soul, just as a bird is caged from flying away.
-Death is freedom from that cage, freedom for the soul.

2. Cindy Fallen
-Allusion used in this poem. Leaves falling from a tree synbolic of... I`m not sure what.

Yellow Ball
-good style. Very descriptive look at a walk.

Next Meeting: Novemeber 03, 2005.

Next meeting:
- poem from an artist/poet
- personal poem
-There will be some general discussion about Literary Terms in Poetry (ie. metaphors, polysyndenton, etc...) as well as discussion on Poetic formats of meter and rhyme (Iambic Pentameter, couplets, sonnets, etc..)

Have a great reading break one and all!!

-the bard