Cody+Nichols

__Poet Statement:__
====The content in my individual poems, relate to life in general. It seems as if in every single poem I write about living in everyday life. Looking through the lens of an ordinary young person, who seems so adventurous. They use all of their senses to explore the various parts of the world, seeing what they can relate the worldly experiences to compare to their own extraordinary lives. This expression is truly shown in the poem “Ode to the El.” It describes a person’s journey throughout the beginning of their day, describing everything they see about something they feel plays a major part in their day. A major strategy of the poems that I created were to induce the reader into my style of descriptive, and imagery writing. This makes the reader relate and imagine a lot of art in their minds, and hopefully inspire them to write for him or herself. That’s why, when I relate my own poetry from reading other aspiring poets work it makes me think of life. Living life, enduring it, and making it the best I can in my time here.====

__**Statement About Poets Poetry:**__
====The poems by the poet Gary Soto, have a feeling of the environment, a sense of life, ones-self. In “Reading Biographies”, “Looking Around, Believing”, and “Who Will Know Us?”, this sense of wondering and deep thought appeared in every single one of his poems. Descriptive imagery was also a major part in creating these extravagant poems. Using every detail such as in “Looking Around, Believing” a view of the city or a person taking a stroll down a street appears:====

====Gary Soto seems to me to be an amazing poet who expresses his feelings about the world in his poetry. That’s where my idea came from. To just talk about what I see in everyday life. This was demonstrated in my “Sonnet”:====

====When poetry seems to relate to life, then it connects to the reader in all types of ways. It all depends on what the situation or circumstances are. But when this feeling is present, the reader can not do anything but, indulge in the poets writing, which is the message I was attempting to get across to my readers.====

- Life... An Every Day Story-



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