"Carolina In My Mind"

I really enjoyed the poetry unit, surprisingly! Generally I do not like that unit in any english class I have ever taken, but this one sort of changed my mind.  The poems we read were sentimental and could be understood on a college students terms. We read about stereotypes, love, death, and woodchucks. (However, I still do not understand what a woodchuck is? Yet, that is beyond the point.)  Our last assignment we to write an essay developing a claim of whether a song we choose is poetry or not poetry.  I chose one of my favorites, "Carolina In My Mind," by James Taylor, it is a good song for any of you that have not heard it. I made the claim that it was poetry, because it consisted of a lot of the terms that we refer to in poetry, for it had metaphors, imagery, and themes.  As it goes, a lot of other students did different songs, and came to the same conclusion as well. Therefore, it makes me think, have we all enjoyed poetry all along? Since we said all or these songs were poetry, and as most young adults do we listen to a lot of music during the day, or at least I do. So, does that mean we all technically really love poetry, for songs are poetry. Its a good question to think about, but I am going to have to say that this unit has truly changed my opinion of poetry. I went in dreading it, and thinking here comes another few boring weeks of reading and trying to translate nonsense. However, I have been converted and if music is poetry, then I am a poetry lover! (: