Review of Two Literary Journals

When I was looking through several journals to choose from, I found a journal that involved a teacher with a master's degree in English literature. Her name was Jane Piirto; she included writing of poems as educational research. I am an Education minor with the hope of becoming a high school English teacher, so I thought this journal might benefit me, somehow in the future. The second literary journal I chose to read consisted of a bunch of poems. I found the two journals worked together because one was reportage based and the other was just poems. the reportage based journal was published by Ashland University and the second journal titled, Poetry, was published by Poetry Foundation.
The first journal I found online through the St. Lawrence library. I read it cover to cover and then decided to find a journal that corresponded to my first choice of journals. I was more attracted to the second journal because it had a nice cover. The poems in the second journal were about personal experiences and journeys the poets had gone through. I found many similarities to the poems used in my first literary journal because of Jane's poem's about traveling to other schools. Jane mentioned the "notion of quality and qualification in the use of art forms as qualitative research." When I read the poems in the second journal, the poems consisted of quality art forms. The poems that emphasized personal experiences and journey that were taken could be used in Jane's educational research. I found Jane's idea about the use of art forms and it being a domain, "a formally organized body of knowledge that is associated to a given field," gave me the inspiration to teach poetry as a high school teacher.
The concept of respecting the quality and qualification of poetry helped me see all the poems in the second journal in a different way. I had a new found respect for poetry and a new desire to teach the creativity that could be found within the history of English Literature. In the second journal there were poems that had both a contemporary feeling to them and a romanticism feeling to them. I found that the poems that had a romanticism touch were the poems that many people were able to relate to; these poems had a more universal sense about them. In the more contemporary poetry, I found there to a less sense of relation to the everyday person. In the second journal there was also less poems with a contemporary style then there were romanticism style.
The poetry that I am drawn to most is romanticism poetry. I love the sophistication about it and the whole heart feeling they have in them. Since I enjoy the romanticism style, I believe I will use poems of that genre for examples in my classroom in the future. To understand the quality and qualification of poetry I think you need to be attracted to a specific domain within poetry; Piirto explains this in the first journal I read, and it led me to thinking that once I have found a style in poetry that I am attracted to, I will be a better teacher at teaching overall objective for a particular unit or class.