Tyehimba Jess really got in to reading
his poetry. He puts a lot of feeling, emotions and emphasizes certain words when
he reads. I think this is great to be so in to reading. This shows that he
really loves what he does and is passionate in his poetry. But on the other
hand it was hard for me to concentrate on what he was saying because I was so
distracted by how he read his poems. This would be a downfall for me. I tried
to find his poems online to listen and read at the same time but I could not
find them. Therefore it was hard to follow along with his readings and
understand the poems fully. I watched numerous videos of Tyehimba Jess reading
his poems on YouTube and at the end the crowd applauded for several seconds. I
believe they were every pleased with his work and they were amazed how he
constructed his poetry.
The crowd was amazed when he pulled up how some poems were written, such as the Syncopated Sonnets. The crowd awed when Tyehimba Jess showed on the projector what the poems look like written. The poem about the McCoy sisters was very enlightening. Tyehimba Jess wrote the poem to have one side is one sister’s thoughts and the other side is the other sister’s thoughts. But in the middle is where they shared thoughts since the McCoy sisters are conjoined at the hip. You could just read one side or the other at a single time; it even makes sense if you read side to side as one huge poem. It all makes sense reading it numerous ways. Another enlightening thing about the poems of the McCoy twins, was that Tyehimba Jess wrote numerous poems. These poems are based on the events of their life, about love and what they experienced when they were “inspected”. There are five poems total about the McCoy twins. All together the five poems can be placed to make an outline of the twins. There are two poems on top, two on the bottom and one poem is in the middle to represent where the twins are conjoined. Tyehimba Jess really sums up the McCoy twins’ lives in numerous ways, it was amazing to see and hear. I just wonder how Tyehimba Jess really knows so much about the twins and how he placed himself in their shoes to write such poems. This was my favorite poem series he created.
The crowd was amazed when he pulled up how some poems were written, such as the Syncopated Sonnets. The crowd awed when Tyehimba Jess showed on the projector what the poems look like written. The poem about the McCoy sisters was very enlightening. Tyehimba Jess wrote the poem to have one side is one sister’s thoughts and the other side is the other sister’s thoughts. But in the middle is where they shared thoughts since the McCoy sisters are conjoined at the hip. You could just read one side or the other at a single time; it even makes sense if you read side to side as one huge poem. It all makes sense reading it numerous ways. Another enlightening thing about the poems of the McCoy twins, was that Tyehimba Jess wrote numerous poems. These poems are based on the events of their life, about love and what they experienced when they were “inspected”. There are five poems total about the McCoy twins. All together the five poems can be placed to make an outline of the twins. There are two poems on top, two on the bottom and one poem is in the middle to represent where the twins are conjoined. Tyehimba Jess really sums up the McCoy twins’ lives in numerous ways, it was amazing to see and hear. I just wonder how Tyehimba Jess really knows so much about the twins and how he placed himself in their shoes to write such poems. This was my favorite poem series he created.
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