Sixth Blog

Today we put into groups and spoke about the poems we had read. Each group picked a poem, in which we were to discuss and later read out loud to the class. Our group got stuck with one of the longer ones, “Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane”. The title pretty much tells you the poem, besides one of thing. Hard Rock, prior to going to the hospital, is a hero to the other inmates. He takes no shit from nobody, resulting in his name “Hard Rock”. Finally coming back, he didn't speak and was a changed person. What had they done to him? The inmates though it was just an act and was acting wise. The hope they had is just crazy. Disappointingly, they soon realized that wasn't it, for it took 3 minutes to state his name. This poem had a great story line to it. I actually understood it, unlike most. Though it is indeed a poem I felt it was like a story.