Creative Nonfiction

Activity no. 1

Name: MARY JOY ACALA Date:02/16/21

Strand and section: 11HUMSS-9

The following are some popular quotations on poetry and the poet. Write down your
interpretations of each quotation.

1. "The poet makes himself a seer by a long, prodigious, and rational disordering of all the
senses. "- Arthur Rimbaud

The poet makes himself diviner for a long time, huge in wise disordering of all the
senses.

2. "A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a

lovesickness." - Robert Frost

Poem begun when the poet felt alone and when they have a bad feelings.

3. "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal." - T.S. Eliot

The immature poets copy-cat or resemble poem and the mature poets steal or take
other poem.
4. "Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Poets are proud with their experiences because they actually used it.

5. "We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry." - Umberto Eco

We are brilliant enough to put in the middle the agenda into poetry.