I don't have much experience on reading and analysing poems. I was an ESL student during IGCSE and in my 12 I learnt not many poems: Carol Ann Duffy's and Robert Browning's. But last wednesday (18th of Sep) during English lesson we learnt a super difficult poem called The Waste land by T.S Elliot written in 1922. We actually didn't learn and go into depth, but the teacher just recited the poem and asked how we felt about it. I had no idea what it was talking about. I even didn't get what the poem was about, who the speaker was, and what was happening in the poem. The problem was that he gave us homework to write a response to this poem, but we could do anything we want: drawing, making a film, creative writing such as poem or normally oral commentary. This was obviously related to CAS as it was producing a creative piece of work and challenging enough.
However, in order to do this, I really needed to understand a poem at least partly, but I had absolutely no idea about it. Although I reread the poem once again at home, it didn't still make sense to me. However, suddenly a good idea came across in my head. How about I wrote a response that I don't get a poem at all? The point of this task was not understanding a poem, but showing my feelings. Anyway, I didn't get the poem and I wanted to show that I could produce a creative writing even if I didn't get the poem. I wrote a diary from my point of view. In the writing, I was nervous, as the teacher might ask me a question about the poem. And finally when my turn came, the long silence kept and the only sound in the room was a clock going. Tik Tok..and by using this sound of the clock I attempted to create my nervousness, developed tension and the silence. And at the end of writing, I realised that the whole thing was dream as the ringing of alarm clock awakened me.
However, in order to do this, I really needed to understand a poem at least partly, but I had absolutely no idea about it. Although I reread the poem once again at home, it didn't still make sense to me. However, suddenly a good idea came across in my head. How about I wrote a response that I don't get a poem at all? The point of this task was not understanding a poem, but showing my feelings. Anyway, I didn't get the poem and I wanted to show that I could produce a creative writing even if I didn't get the poem. I wrote a diary from my point of view. In the writing, I was nervous, as the teacher might ask me a question about the poem. And finally when my turn came, the long silence kept and the only sound in the room was a clock going. Tik Tok..and by using this sound of the clock I attempted to create my nervousness, developed tension and the silence. And at the end of writing, I realised that the whole thing was dream as the ringing of alarm clock awakened me.
