Poetry and Me

I am particularly happy these days because I get to learn very interesting things. I am in a new poetry class here at M2H. I have started to learn how to read and analyze poems. Last week Judy spent time explaining to us what romanticism in poetry means. She read parts of Wordsworth’s preface to Lyrical Ballads. His descriptions of who are poets really struck me. He says that they are people who feel more than ordinary. They think deeply about things, and then the poetry flows from them. 


I realized, sitting there, that I am essentially a poet. I am only one of many here who fit that description. We tend to feel more than is typical. And we often let those feelings flow from us in the forms of poetry. 

It is not a surprise that so many of us love that class. It is the best subject on earth.