My Thoughts...

What a woman! Maya Angelou brought out a lot of emotions in me. I was in awe by her words of wisdom, her concern for children, and for humanity. I just loved how she recited the poems and her comments and how she related the poems with different people and situations. She made me think of ways I would be able to connect to children by using poetry. I use to always feel like poetry is not for me, just because I couldn't interpret it in the way that it said it was in in the book or what others thought the poem meant. But what I have concluded is that its not about what the author says it should be or how others interpret it, its about what the reader gets out of the poem, how they related to the poem, and their own feelings, that is what I want to teach my students. Poetry is very powerful when it hits you in the heart, just like the poem Maya Angelou recited Sympathy by Paul Lawrence Dunbar.