Creative Writing Class part 4
The final class. Poetry and experimental writing styles. Jabberwocky. There was quite a bit of discussion about Lewis Carroll and how great the poem is and the movie too. I added my two cents worth by saying this is the sort of poetry that is completely incomprehensible to me and I would never willingly read it. We didn't have the whole poem, I believe it is quite long, we had four verses and for me that was four too many. We learned that this is called nonsense verse, (they got that right), where the author has fun with language, experimenting with the sound, the rhythm and flow of language. The love of language is the thing. It isn't supposed to make sense, or have meaning. I don't get it. There was one other poem, equally nonsensical to me, but to more literary persons is probably fun to read. I did learn that these poems have no meaning, they are just pure nonsense, so if I don't understand them, that's normal. Which didn't make me feel an...