I liked how your poem was simple; a simple description of simple pears. You said that your poem didn't tell a story because it was that simple description; my poem contrasts with that because it is basically a short story. Something that stuck out about your poem was how the poet said the pears had hints of blue. That stuck in my mind because that is not an observation usually made. I also enjoyed the Office theme song:)
My short story differed from your comments because you claimed that Modernism writing didn't talk about historical events. In fact, my story was very focused on the Harlem Renaissance. Similar to your poem, my short story shared a lot of detail and descriptions of its topic.
I liked the structure of your poem and how, although short, your get a great descriptive idea in a simplistic manner.
I agree with Melissa. My poem drew on the history of the American Civil War and how the African Americans have been "free" for 100 years. Our reflections disagree on that point. The pear and the intense description of the pear stood out as that was a 180 from my poem.
The first thing that I noticed that was similar was the usage of a unique object as imagery. A pear and a river are most likely not something that is brought up a lot. The thing that hit home with me was the difference. My author uses past tense whereas yours does not. I think that the different writing styles come out her.
I would agree with the comments above on how he talked about history. My poem was about the black rights of African Americans. The thing that stuck out to me was how he gave general descriptions with things and especially about the pears.
This poem is like The Tropics of New York in that both talk about fruit, but they differ because this poem just describes pears, while The Tropics describes why the fruit is important to the speaker. I like that you talked about the present tense focus of modernism because excepting the Harlem Renaissance, most modernist writers focused on what was happening at the moment.
Differences in our poems are your poem uses simple descriptions when describing a pear and my describes a town and the people that live in it. They both are simple descriptions and get right to the point though. You said that your poem never speaks in the past tense and that it is a in the moment and now type of writing while mine is more in the past and telling a story about what had happened. I felt that this poem was a curious writing by the author that fascinated over a pear while I feel that mine was a man that was interested in a town looking in from the outside.
My story does not really have much in common with yours. Mine is an actual story, while this appears to just be random descriptions of pears. But both of our works used a lot of imagery, which is common in a lot of Modernist writings.
Your work uses a lot of imagery, and mine did not. Mine used much more personification. Yours is about a pear where mine was about love. Imagery is common in the Modernism time period. This has a large focus on the moment which is typical in modernism.
Something significant that stood out to me that your poem was so depend on the visual, which is similar to mine, so we shared common ground there. Our poems shared very little differences, but if I had to pick just one, I could only say yours is about a pear while mine is about a man pretending to be a dog and eating poetry.
The first thing that stuck out to me was the major use of description. My story did not have the abundant amount of descriptions that yours did. Mine mainly focused on the intentional break with tradition according to your "Characteristics of Modernism".
One thing that was similar in our poems was that they took place in the present and did not look to the past. If anything, the poems spoke to the future. Besides that fact, our poems were extremely different. Yours was quite descriptive and gave many details. It was actually an entire poem comparing the details of two pears. My poem was not at all like that. It was not descriptive and did not give details. It instead was emotional, real, and dramatic. It was a poem that caused an emotional reaction within the reader.
I liked how your poem was simple; a simple description of simple pears. You said that your poem didn't tell a story because it was that simple description; my poem contrasts with that because it is basically a short story. Something that stuck out about your poem was how the poet said the pears had hints of blue. That stuck in my mind because that is not an observation usually made. I also enjoyed the Office theme song:)
ReplyDeleteMy short story differed from your comments because you claimed that Modernism writing didn't talk about historical events. In fact, my story was very focused on the Harlem Renaissance. Similar to your poem, my short story shared a lot of detail and descriptions of its topic.
ReplyDeleteI liked the structure of your poem and how, although short, your get a great descriptive idea in a simplistic manner.
I agree with Melissa. My poem drew on the history of the American Civil War and how the African Americans have been "free" for 100 years. Our reflections disagree on that point. The pear and the intense description of the pear stood out as that was a 180 from my poem.
ReplyDeleteThe first thing that I noticed that was similar was the usage of a unique object as imagery. A pear and a river are most likely not something that is brought up a lot. The thing that hit home with me was the difference. My author uses past tense whereas yours does not. I think that the different writing styles come out her.
ReplyDeleteI would agree with the comments above on how he talked about history. My poem was about the black rights of African Americans. The thing that stuck out to me was how he gave general descriptions with things and especially about the pears.
ReplyDeleteThis poem is like The Tropics of New York in that both talk about fruit, but they differ because this poem just describes pears, while The Tropics describes why the fruit is important to the speaker. I like that you talked about the present tense focus of modernism because excepting the Harlem Renaissance, most modernist writers focused on what was happening at the moment.
ReplyDeleteDifferences in our poems are your poem uses simple descriptions when describing a pear and my describes a town and the people that live in it. They both are simple descriptions and get right to the point though. You said that your poem never speaks in the past tense and that it is a in the moment and now type of writing while mine is more in the past and telling a story about what had happened. I felt that this poem was a curious writing by the author that fascinated over a pear while I feel that mine was a man that was interested in a town looking in from the outside.
ReplyDeleteMy story does not really have much in common with yours. Mine is an actual story, while this appears to just be random descriptions of pears. But both of our works used a lot of imagery, which is common in a lot of Modernist writings.
ReplyDeleteYour work uses a lot of imagery, and mine did not. Mine used much more personification. Yours is about a pear where mine was about love. Imagery is common in the Modernism time period. This has a large focus on the moment which is typical in modernism.
ReplyDeleteSomething significant that stood out to me that your poem was so depend on the visual, which is similar to mine, so we shared common ground there. Our poems shared very little differences, but if I had to pick just one, I could only say yours is about a pear while mine is about a man pretending to be a dog and eating poetry.
ReplyDeleteThe first thing that stuck out to me was the major use of description. My story did not have the abundant amount of descriptions that yours did. Mine mainly focused on the intentional break with tradition according to your "Characteristics of Modernism".
ReplyDeleteOne thing that was similar in our poems was that they took place in the present and did not look to the past. If anything, the poems spoke to the future. Besides that fact, our poems were extremely different. Yours was quite descriptive and gave many details. It was actually an entire poem comparing the details of two pears. My poem was not at all like that. It was not descriptive and did not give details. It instead was emotional, real, and dramatic. It was a poem that caused an emotional reaction within the reader.
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