Connection and Benefit to I.B.
This poet has an entrancing style of writing so well, that the reader has no chance of putting down the poem right in the middle of a line. That's why I have chosen this poet, Ted Kooser, to show the writers in in I.B. how to write a lot of interesting, deep thoughts, and put it in a small piece of writing. In I.B, you are required to write efficiently and creatively, and this poet has shown excellent examples of doing just that.
Firstly, he chooses such attention-grabbing titles that pull you toward the poem, like After Years, and Flying at Night. He wants people to, just by reading the title, get attracted toward his poem. For example, like I said before, Flying at Night. This title really intrigues one's mind because, people don't fly, and some are even afraid of the dark. Just by doing that, he has already captured you in his trap of exceptional writing. The other title, After Years, is also as magnetic as the first one because it makes you want to find out what happened before and after those particular years of his life, and what he saw, if he even explains it, and that ties along to my next point why his poems are so fascinating.
The next point I mentioned just now is that by leaving some parts out, he makes the poems even more absorbing than if it had the information that he leaves out. In other words, he focuses only on what's needed, rather than what is not needed. Like, for example, in After Years, he mentioned nothing whatsoever about the person he saw after years. Also, he mentioned nothing whatsoever of what he was in Flying at Night. As well as in A Birthday Poem, he didn't say it was the birth and death of the sun, or what he was (a cow), you just had to infer, and that is what he makes the reader do. And that is what should also be exampled in I.B., as well as taught.
Lastly, the final major thing that should be shown in I.B. is the metaphors. He uses an unimaginable amount of metaphors to enhance his poems, but does it so well that it just blends in with the poem like fruits in a milkshake. (See what I did there?) Anyway, back to the point, he uses the metaphors most strikingly in After Years and in Flying at Night. The in-depth explanation of the metaphors is in the analysis, but still, some of the more gripping ones are; "like shimmering novas" and "the great open dome of my heart". These are really deep, and I think it would be wonderful to write metaphors like these.
And that is a wrap to why I think that this poet an his magnificent poetry should be included in the I.B. curriculum; his choice of titles, leaving just enough mystery to make it better, the metaphors and most important, his imagination. And I think everyone deserves the talent to be able to write and imagine like Ted Kooser.
Firstly, he chooses such attention-grabbing titles that pull you toward the poem, like After Years, and Flying at Night. He wants people to, just by reading the title, get attracted toward his poem. For example, like I said before, Flying at Night. This title really intrigues one's mind because, people don't fly, and some are even afraid of the dark. Just by doing that, he has already captured you in his trap of exceptional writing. The other title, After Years, is also as magnetic as the first one because it makes you want to find out what happened before and after those particular years of his life, and what he saw, if he even explains it, and that ties along to my next point why his poems are so fascinating.
The next point I mentioned just now is that by leaving some parts out, he makes the poems even more absorbing than if it had the information that he leaves out. In other words, he focuses only on what's needed, rather than what is not needed. Like, for example, in After Years, he mentioned nothing whatsoever about the person he saw after years. Also, he mentioned nothing whatsoever of what he was in Flying at Night. As well as in A Birthday Poem, he didn't say it was the birth and death of the sun, or what he was (a cow), you just had to infer, and that is what he makes the reader do. And that is what should also be exampled in I.B., as well as taught.
Lastly, the final major thing that should be shown in I.B. is the metaphors. He uses an unimaginable amount of metaphors to enhance his poems, but does it so well that it just blends in with the poem like fruits in a milkshake. (See what I did there?) Anyway, back to the point, he uses the metaphors most strikingly in After Years and in Flying at Night. The in-depth explanation of the metaphors is in the analysis, but still, some of the more gripping ones are; "like shimmering novas" and "the great open dome of my heart". These are really deep, and I think it would be wonderful to write metaphors like these.
And that is a wrap to why I think that this poet an his magnificent poetry should be included in the I.B. curriculum; his choice of titles, leaving just enough mystery to make it better, the metaphors and most important, his imagination. And I think everyone deserves the talent to be able to write and imagine like Ted Kooser.