Profound Text.
Non mortem timemus, sed cogitationem mortis
This week in class I learned about the TP-CASTT of poetry analysis, which is a systematic way of looking at a poem in order to be able to understand the poem more easily. I find myself to be a person that is able to do things best when I have a clear plan about what to do, and I found it much easier to follow the TP-CASTT system than trying to glean information by simply reading the poem over and over. The TP-CASTT system tells me exactly what the important things are to look for in order to understand the big picture in the poem.
Not only has the TP-CASTT system taught me what to look for in a poem, it has also taught me to appreciate poems. Up to this point, I have never understood what the big deal is with poems. Yeah, sure, the ones that rhyme might be clever and sound good and all, but what about the ones that don't rhyme? Those made absolutely no sense to me. They seemed to be inefficient ways of telling stories that either don't make sense or don't sound incomplete. Now, knowing the TP-CASTT system, I can appreciate poems for their complexity and deeper meaning. Before, I would read what poems say on the outside, but I would never really read the deeper meaning. Thus, I couldn't appreciate poetry for what it is, a neat, clever way for the author to express themselves. This week, when we read The Eagle by Alfred Tennyson, the TP-CASTT method helped me appreciate the literary elements used within the poem. Had I read the poem without TP-CASTT, I would have thought something along the lines of yeah, so what? An eagle with hands falls off a cliff. So what? With TP-CASTT, however, I could see that the eagle isn't actually an eagle, and could appreciate the beauty of the image the author painted. I could see how the poem is complex from the way it contrasts ideas. All in all, I learned the value of poetry as a form of writing that can express ideas on multiple levels.
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