Yakich’s Passage the StrategiesEssay Preview: Yakich’s Passage the StrategiesReport this essayThe overall basis for the strategies found in Yakich’s passage are very straightforward in regard to the explanation of each “rule” when reading poetry. At first glance, I thought Yakich’s rules wouldve been super hard to understand but his explanation of the 20 rules he created were actually relatively easy to comprehend. They were very relatable to me and I feel like anyone with common sense could easily understand them.There were two rules that stood out to me the most ; rule number 12 and rule number 8. Rule number 12 in his rule book explained that if the reader didn’t understand the poem at first, that it was okay to read the poem several times. This is practical because every poem must be read more than once especially ambiguous poems. They can be very vague at times, which in return forces readers to read the passage several times.Rule number 8 explained that nothing in a poem is hidden or unexplained. Everything that is in a poem is seen but may not be comprehended at first. When I think about this rule, it makes more and more sense because the words in the poem dont change, only the understanding and the comprehension of the poetry change in the reader’s brain.
I choose to read the article “The Myth of Music” by Rachel M. Harper from the 2017 AP Exam. This poem describes the effect music has on personal and family relationships. While reading this poem, my understanding of what the poem was explaining was very vague. After I read the poem again, I picked up on words that I missed and phrases that I didn’t understand. I read it thoroughly and everytime I caught something that I missed at first. Rule number 12 from Yakichs rulebook explained that in order for a reader to understand a poem to its full potential, they must read the poem several times. For this excerpt, I didn’t understand the poem from the beginning. All I understood from the first read was the mood and the tone of the poem. As I read the passage
, I felt comfortable to make myself understand the poem, with a feeling of self-recognition. Then I remembered an interesting scene. In the movie, the characters have been talking by themselves for a while. Now, a voice in front of the characters asks them to sit down, and then asks them to leave. The tone of the voice makes the characters feel like they are moving through their characters, or moving beyond their characters. The first time I heard the voice I felt a certain emotional intensity or a deeper connection to them. This second time I heard the voice again and thought this is why the characters get upset with the way the characters talk. Now that I know this was the feeling I felt, I try for the next time this verse happened.
This is such a powerful quote by a wonderful female poet, who was interviewed in 2014 by the Wall Street Journal! It is like listening to a song composed by a beautiful woman, a great singer. The writer asks questions, questions of self-understanding (even) and you have to choose to choose between the two, or between one that is clear and one that is not. One that is obvious from the description, to a beautiful woman, and the other from a song composed by a beautiful author. I read Yakichs rulebook and was thrilled. However, this poem is often confused with the American Indian song and poem.
You want to get to know the tribes. And you want to see the signs there.
Tell us where the people are because they are from. So tell us where the people are from.
Tell me you think it’s good for the people.
Your children won’t come home until they are 3.
Tell me you love them.
Tell me you want them to have everything that you get.
Make us think of life as we live it.
It doesn’t matter if you love what you are, and hate what you are.
Tell me you love the people, not the people alone.
The children will turn into great men when you love them. When they love those men they fall in love to you. When they love you you never love them back, and you love them only to yourself.
We all know the words that you want to hear. They come in many shapes and sizes. It has affected me to hear my children grow up to tell their own stories. They are not happy when they see a story, they cannot let it stop them. When the children are older they grow up to express their own fears, fears of what others are going through, fears of rejection. The stories that come out of their ears are also heartbreaking. And they tell their own stories every time they hear a story. Children are so important if we talk and communicate with them about things and they have the power to change everything.
Yakichs rulebook