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    Voices from the Poet-Sea
    Voices from the Poet-Sea
    Voices from the Poet-Sea
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    Voices from the Poet-Sea

    By LGHS English 9H Class of 2021

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    Following the successful “Windows to the Teenage Soul,” “A Cup of Poetea,” “Where the Poetree Grows,” and last year’s “No One Stanza-Lone,” Los Gatos High School has constructed another masterpiece. With the help of ebook publisher Smashwords, more than 175 students have put together a poetic compilation of comic relief, tear-jerking tragedies, and insights into the teenage mind. Led by English teachers Tonya McQuade, Kathleen Wehr, and Zachary Davidson-Wilson, the English 9 Honors classes have designed and edited “Voices from the Poet-Sea” into a beautiful collection of poetry, artwork, and team explanations of the process they followed. You can purchase this incredible collection and help the 9th grade students raise funds for the LGHS Class of 2021.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTonya McQuade
    Release dateMay 17, 2018
    ISBN9780463772256
    Voices from the Poet-Sea
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    LGHS English 9H Class of 2021

    "LGHS English 9H Class of 2021" includes eight English 9 Honors classes, made up of approximately 175 students, taught by English teachers Tonya McQuade, Kathleen Wehr, and Zachary Davison-Wilson at Los Gatos High School in Los Gatos, CA.

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      Voices from the Poet-Sea - LGHS English 9H Class of 2021

      Artwork by Brandon Virk

      A Jumbled Expression of the Human Soul

      By Quinn Lazear

      What is Poetry?

      Is there an answer?

      Any cliché hallmark card answer would say that poetry is no one thing

      Poetry is a collection of thoughts and voices together in a song

      Poetry is an emotion or a riddle

      I have learned poetry is more than just meaningful words

      Poetry is music and music is poetry

      Poetry is a song without the notes

      A way to betray the human soul without exerting the hands

      A lazy man's way to tell a story

      Emote something he wants to share with any who are willing to listen

      Poetry is an ocean of waves and sequences and creations

      With a tide of positive and negative topics

      And waves of patterns and rhymes

      And a never dying presence of life and energy

      I don’t write poetry

      I write know-it-all b.s. that makes a person think

      I write the music in my head without the rhythmic talent

      What do you write?

      That is why there is no answer to poetry

      Poetry is the purest most jumbled expression of the human soul. Since I was little, I’ve always loved music. My dad told me I would sit in the car and bounce to the rhythms as a baby. As I aged, I started to acknowledge the words behind the notes. It wasn’t until ninth grade English class that I finally realized that the lyrics I joyfully repeated over and over again was poetry. I was completely oblivious that all along I was taking apart poetry and not just song lyrics. The songs I’ve always loved now had many more reasons to be loved.

      I learned poetry can be deceiving. It can sound happy and be the total opposite. However, throughout this entire unit, I’ve only learned that people can be just as deceiving as their poetry. Poetry can be written both about the internal desires of the soul and the flaws in the same writing. No one can read a poem and understand its full meaning without being the writer themselves. Poetry is deceiving music.

      The Puzzle Pieces of Our Lives

      By Adrina Tang

      When we were little, poetry was the bane of our existence. In elementary school, teachers would show us poems that seemed to us merely incomprehensible words fitted together to create something we needed to interpret but didn’t have a clue where to start. And, to some extent, some poems still are. However, now we know they can be so much more than that. A poem can be a piece of someone –– a little window into the writer’s thoughts, their ideas, and their values. Poetry makes people think, especially the poets themselves. Poems are like a work of art, painted with strokes of the author’s words, fitted together to form a masterpiece, and comprehensible for the people who truly take the effort to connect and understand it. Of all the different types of writing –– essays, short stories, flash fiction –– I think that poems are the most intimate, and often times also the hardest to share. But that is also part of their brilliance: once you do, it results in a great sense of connection and understanding.

      Before this unit, poems were a rather unfamiliar realm in writing. I was both excited and nervous to explore them more intricately –– excited to find out whether poetry was truly something I could relate to, nervous to see whether I had an affinity for it or not, whether I had the ability to express what I wanted to. Now, after writing so many poems for homework and seeing the many different forms of poetry, poems are a representation of familiarity and comfort. While there are still many things I can learn and discover, poetry is no longer an uncertainty, and I have started to understand that poetry deals less with ability and more with ideas and expression.

      In a poem, the message and the way it makes people feel when they read it is what truly makes it great. Some poems may contain the simplest words and a primitive format, but because it makes the reader think and feel in ways that make them remember its impact, these poems can be some of the greatest ever written. After this unit, I think that I’ve finally begun to understand what poetry is really about.

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      I used to struggle with the endless blizzard of the language of poetry; before this unit, I could barely understand the true meaning of some of my own work. In my eighth-grade poetry unit, I realized that I was a decent author of poetry, yet it took me a significant amount of time to break down some of my own poems and understand what I was trying to convey. After this unit, I have learned how to appreciate that poetry is something that I can interpret differently than others. I can use my imagination to twist the complicated words of poetry into my opinion of the author's message. I have always looked for the correct answers in my life; because social norms and tradition suggest that the correct answer is eternally the right answer, which is why it used to be so challenging to interpret the mystery that poetry represents.  

      Most of the time, there isn’t a definitive right or wrong answer in poetry. The interpretation of any poem can be molded to what I believe is the message. To me, poetry is a place to let my imagination run wild; it is a vast snowstorm of language that I can finally write and understand. Poetry is a place where no one can mark me down for having the wrong answer. I used to think of poetry as a dull, complicated language, which I had no hope of understanding. After this unit, I can understand poetry, and it has become a place for me to allow my imagination to flow free, go against social norms of finding the right answer, and see the solution that suits me best. Poetry is no longer a seemingly meaningless struggle; it is now a blizzard of freedom.

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      Viveca Pannell

      Poetry.

      That thick golden honey that feeds my ears.

      I listen, still and waiting

      For the glorious echoes that fly through all

      The halls and rooms and parks.

      It runs.

      It glides.

      It soars.

      Poets with their pens can use ink.

      Or they can use rhythm.

      Or meter.

      Or rhyme.

      A poet’s arsenal consists of connotation,

      Punctuation,

      And metaphor.

      Number one though,

      The most important to the soul of poetry

      Is choice. And passion.

      With the rhythm, and the meter, and the rhyme,

      Now I make sounds that have more meaning that feelings ever can.

      Connected

      Poetry reels in our senses

      And blasts them to one blessed moment,

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      One fleeting feeling.

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      With a satisfaction

      That none may share

      Or ever truly know.

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