Different look at poems… 21 August 2008

Today I have an enjoyable time in class… it was wonderful. Dr. Edwin invites a poet from the British Council. She was an enthusiastic person. She taught me on appreciating poems. She taught me on how we can read and understand the poems. The activity conducted was not only fun and interesting but knowledgeable. The activities are done in group as my class combined with the twinning program class. Everyone had an enjoyable time with her. One of her activity was that we are assigned to different character’s point of view. My group got the mother’s point of view. My group discussed and came out with a very nice poem. Thanks goes to Kak Wan, she is good in creating poems. Her ideas are very good. We actually combined her ideas and other group member’s ideas and voila our poem was created! Hmm… never thought that we could actually create a poem.

When she asked to present the poems that we have created, everyone came out with interesting and unique way of presenting the poem. It was funny to see some of them reciting the poem and they were very creative at it. Before ending the class, the poet recites her poem that she had written during her university days. It was very nice to see the way she recites the poem. I felt time flies very fast on that day. Although the class was two hours, I didn’t felt like it. Overall, in this class I come to appreciate poem as poem is not actually boring if we appreciate it and make it as unique and creative as possible. I really hope that Dr. Edwin could invite again this poet as I learn a lot from her.