State of the Planet

         At first when I looked at this poem I was just thinking man this is going to be really hard to understand I never really get poems. Or I think the poem is saying one thing and then it is saying another. But when reading this poem over and over again I felt like I was able to comprehend and understand some of it. This poem at first was kind of confusing. When I first started reading the poem a lot through me for a loop, but then looking up certain words really did help. The following words that Professor Corrigan told us to look up really gave me a better understanding towards the poem. The first line that caught my eye that I did not understand was “Lucretius, we have grown so clever that mechanics in our art of natural philosophy can take the property”. I was just wondering what the poem was talking about and was so off guard when reading. Then I looked up who Lucretius was which it told me he was a roman poet and a philosopher then it made more sense to me.  My favorite quote throughout this poem was “Your people, you know, were the ones who taught the world to love.” I liked this quote because it is true people really do control a lot. What people do and say can have a huge effect on anything. People have a huge impact on anything in life therefore you have to be careful what you say and do. Another quote that stood out to me was “People have been arguing for centuries about whether or not you thought of Venus as a metaphor. “ This was a quote that was confusing to me in the poem. I was able to better understand this quote when looking up Venus and understanding it was a Roman Goddess which represents love, beauty, and fertility. Still though, this quote is still confusing. One line that I liked in this poem was “Poetry should be able to comprehend the earth.” This quote really made me think of literature and how literature can be seen in real life it is not just a reading. We can actually be doing literature. With this quote is made me think of poetry and what affects it. Then it made me wonder if literature and poetry conflict at all. I guess I can just say that this quote really made me think a lot more just about poetry and literature.