February
I didn't have a good experience with the poetry. It has always been hard for me to understand poetry and figure out the moral behind it. I think it was because of the poetry my EOC's scores went down. I have hard time understanding haiku because a lot of problem, theme and background are wrote in only three lines. It is not that I hate poems I love them, I like how they rhyme, I like how they give a very important message  and how so many feeling are expressed in only few lines. Once I understand a poem I feel like it was the best thing someone can write and I also praise the poet who writes amazing poems.
I find it difficult to understand because sometimes the words that poet uses to rhyme the poem is type of words that I have never heard before. Also, so many feelings and emotions are shown behind those few lines of poetry that I miss out what the poem is trying to say. I think Haiku is the most difficult poem to understand because it has so much less detail and a big meaning behind it.
Some tips and strategies that I learned is to always summarize each paragraph of the poem, check if the poem rhymes, and figure out the most redundant line in the poem because all these hints and clues leads to the main idea of the poem. I also learned to know the background information about the author because it helps you find out the theme of the poem.
The first poem My Dear and Loving Husband was facile to interpret because I read the background information about Anne Bradstreet first and from that I learned that she loved her husband so much she had eight kids and she wrote poems about her everyday life. She mentioned "love" so many times throughout the poem. She also mentioned how much she loved her husband and how love is priceless. No valley of gold could buy the love of her towards her husband. The second poem upon the burning was also easy to interpret because it had so much details and she made sure her message was clear that her house was burning and she couldn't do anything about it. All her valued items and memories were destroyed but it didn't take her trust away from the God, the theme of this poem was always having faith in god and he will always be there for you no matter what.
The puritan beliefs of trusting god and the importance of love were exemplified in her poems. She lived a simple life loving her husband and raising her eight children she was a strong puritan women who was educated and loved to write poems. Her poem also shows her trust and faith in God.
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