Homemade Soup Day/Thank A Mailperson Day
2005-02-04 @ 10:29 p.m.

Getting (relatively) unbiased feedback on your poetry is very intriguing, even if not all of it seems useful. I find having my poem identified with a specific Sylvia Plath poem very funny! Partly because I've never even read her poem, partly because I wasn't thinking of Plath when I wrote One Whole Minute. As for On A Tuesday Morning, being told that my writing bore a resemblance to Tagore (the Indian guy whose quote I stuck on as an epigram) was satisfying. The choice of epigram was intuitive really. The quote happened to appear on my blog, and it resonated with the poem's central image. Think Zen! That's what the person who gave me the feedback thought anyway. Even beat poetry found its way into the analysis, but I've been told to edit the poem, which is quite a justified comment. (Although my original intention was to write a long poem in free verse!) I gave the two poems and Another Night On The Patio to Mr Purvis, just to see what he thinks of them.

Apparently, I stayed back in school for no reason, because there wasn't practice after all. Maybe I mixed up the practice date? Not that it really mattered, because I got a fair bit of integration done, and witnessed the most hilarious things in my classroom. Like Joseph singing along to Jay Chou, and Jennifer's dark culinary secrets! It was so entertaining that I might just stay back after my 'S' Paper on Fridays to watch the unfolding drama that is the classroom after lessons. Speaking of 'S' Paper, is it just me, or is Mr Purvis more engaging when he's talking about generalities instead of specifics. By that I mean that he's more fun to listen to when he talks at you about poetry in general, instead of The Return Of The Native in particular. (I've realised that I always mistype "Return" as "Retun" for some reason.) That's what I thought, listening to him today. Picked up several interesting quotes during the lecture, both from him and his materials. Good stuff...