I have mixed feelings when it comes to poetry; I enjoy a good rhyming ditty, and even some ballads, but I do find it tedious after a while. Annotating poem after poem last year in English darkened my view slightly, but after having a break for a few months I am ready to jump back in again! One poet that I will NEVER get tired of is Dr. Seuss. I'm pretty sure that he was sky high when he wrote that stuff, but it is memorable nonetheless. Also, Jabebrwocky is pretty fantastic in the fact that Lewis Carroll made a literary masterpiece consisting of mainly gibberish, but readers can still understand it (for the most part). Reading it in class brought back memories of my mom reading the pop-up book to me and my brother when we were little and telling me how she loved that same poem when she was younger. I don't like writing poetry as much as short stories, but I can pull off a decent one if I have to for class.
I liked the references to Greek mythology in the Lullaby poem, and I think that the poet was likening winter to the underworld, but I can't be sure. I also really liked how bats were described as "a serpent muscling air apart, a dire banner come unfurled, a river flowing wholly from the old, mute mountain’s desperate heart,". I found those lines very effective because they painted an artistic, dramatic image in my mind in a way that I've never pictured bats before.
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