1. Discuss your story through reading and writing about poetry. What do you know or assume about poetry and how to read and write about it? What have you loved about poetry in the past? What did you find most difficult? Ever since I can remember, I have always loved reading poetry, even though I despised reading. I loved reading poems because they were sometimes simple and easy to read and understand. The first poem I remember is the poem “The rose is red, the violets are blue, the sugar is sweet and so are you.” I remember writing and reading poems in primary and secondary school, it was the only time I looked forward to English lessons. I even wrote a poem to enter a scholarship once I got to high school. I didn't win, but I was offered to publish it in a collection of poems, but I declined the offer. We wrote haikus, ballads, pictures, sonnets, limericks and free verse. When I was writing these poems after the initial difficulty of starting the poem, I felt like it was a direct connection to what I was feeling. An easy outlet seemed to flow from my mind painting a picture to unknown places and emotions.2. Among the three poems we read this week, which one provoked the strongest reaction in you and which one struck you the most? Describe the response and explain what details from the poem contributed to that response. In the fifth grade autobiography, it's about a person, I think, a girl who looks at a picture, describes it and remembers the good old days when her grandfather was still alive and smelled of lemons.In Mid-term Break, it's about the eldest son who leaves for college only to be called home six weeks later for his little brother's funeral. At the beginning, it was the poem that I understood and that I felt the most emotions... in the middle of a sheet...... uTube and I looked at one where the teacher told the children to rip out Mr. Pritchard's thoughts on how to analyze poems. He told the children that Mr Pritchard's views were wrong and his way of showing this was to tear out the pages containing his views. When I heard the teacher tell the students to tear up the pages, I couldn't help but think that I couldn't agree with what he was saying because I wouldn't want to pay the school for the book. I understand that Mr. Pritchard's views were wrong, but I guess I don't understand his reasoning for such dramatic reasons. Although it was very funny to watch, especially when the other guy burst in and demanded to know what the kids were doing, then he realized the principal was there and telling them to rip out the pages. Overall, I feel like both the movie and the book are telling us to keep an open mind about the meaning of the poem..