Lectures I Loved #2

            Another lecture that I loved was our latest lecture, the introduction to poetry. We started off this lecture with a quote from the movie stared by Robin Williams called “Dead Poet Society”. This quote was “We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. Poetry, beauty, romance, and love. These are what we stay alive for.” We then learned that reading poetry involves all of the senses and discovered the meaning of a sonnet. As well as all of those fantastic features to the lecture, we then were gifted the privilege to watch 4 short clips from the movie and were really shown how powerful and deep poetry really is. I never looked at poetry so deeply before this lecture and in doing this, a whole new horizon was opened up for me when speaking and thinking about poetry.