Post for 09/16/13

     Harryette Mullen's sonnet in the poetry packet made me laugh but it also made me question myself. If taken the wrong way the poem could be seen as an insult instead of a love poem. That's probably the way I would take it if a guy had read this poem to me. As I think more on it I can see that it is more about being in love with someone who may seem ordinary to most but is special anyway to the person speaking the poem. "And in some minty-fresh mouthwashes there is more sweetness than in the garlic breeze my main squeeze wheezes." Something like that would definitely bug me for a while even if it was a joke, as I am very self conscious.
     Shakespeare's sonnet about love always growing and changing opened up a whole new thought trail for me. I always thought that a person's love for another could always grow, but I never saw any reason not to say, "I love you most" when someone I care for is around. I really like the line "to give full growth to that which still doth grow" because it helped me fully express my thoughts about it. Now that I've read this poem I believe that this is extremely accurate and I see why Shakespeare is such an amazing poet in people's eyes.
     "If I had a year off, I'd write a novel." When I read this for the first time I actually started laughing. I couldn't believe that Cameron had written something that I had told my mom only a few months ago. She had asked me what I planned to do for college and I told her that I was considering taking a year off from school and writing a novel. I ended up getting talked out of that plan as it turns out, though I think it was for the better. I do hope to write a novel one day, and I really hope I get published. It's always been a dream of mine.