1. Reflextion

While reading the New York School Poets I was very surprised how much I enjoyed it. These poets took a new approach towards poetry. It was not the traditional sonnets that I was required to read throughout high school. Looking through the different poets I found that their style ranged from long journal style, to weird spaced poems with only a few words on the page, to simple short poems. They all had one thing in common however and that was the idea to write about anything. There were poems about baseball, the details of what people were wearing, bits of overheard conversations, French poems. There seemed to be an endless amount of topics scattered throughout the poems of the different authors.

The poets used common diction in most of their poems. It seemed to be focus on simple things that had a larger meaning. By using simple style they were able to keep it short but say a lot in the process. Repetition was also frequent in some of the poems I read as well. But imagery was the main tool that stood out to me. In the poem “What You Were Wearing” the imagery of the details the speaker experienced were all imagery. It was as if you could paint a picture of what he was describing in your mind. The majority of the poems were also very vivid like that.