October 28, 2007
Aviva 6A
POETRY RESPONSE: NEW EYES
The poem New Eyes was a very descriptive and well written poem. I thought that Adrienne Jaeger did such a fine job with the change of heart she used. This poem really helped me to write my own poem using the same technique. When she said “I spy books scattered through his pile of belongings, But each with a tattered binding or missing cover, but every page well loved” I thought this was very creative. It came to my mind right away that he was looking around for books since he loved to read, instead of begging for money.
I especially liked the beginning. It gave me a perfect mental picture of a crowded hot day on Madison Avenue. Then at the end she repeated the beginning again but differently. The ending lines were very much the same as the start of the poem, but with the new idea of “looking ahead with new eyes”. The first time I read the poem I did not see the last sentence “with new eyes”. Then when Mr. Gelmon read it I had a totally different perspective of the poem. You might say I saw it, “with new eyes.”
One of my favorite stanzas is the third one because Adrienne Jaeger described the man so well that you knew right away that he was a homeless and grubby guy. Then she explained him even better in the fourth stanza. This helped me understand that he was a frustrated careless guy. But then I read the fifth and sixth stanzas and noticed he actually is not a grubby boring homeless gut but a guy who loves to read.
I enjoyed how Adrienne Jaeger wrote this poem. After finishing it I was really inspired to right my own poems.
