Joel and Poetry

I am not a very theatrical person. At all. I didn't like drama groups or anything while growing up. So when we had to read Joel out loud outside it was different for me. And it wasn't my favorite thing wither usually when I am reading out loud I can't really pay attention to what I am saying. I pay attention to how I am saying it more and when I do try to hear what I am saying I usually start reading in my head again. I also was weary about Joel too. I don't like poetry. In my school since I didn't like poetry in middle school they made me take like this poetry elective. It was awful because I felt like the other kids were catching onto the meaning a lot more quicker than I was. So when reading I just kept thinking what is this about. Instead of like Professor Corrigan said reading it through just to read not thinking about the meaning the whole time. If you do that you miss the whole other part of the poem. So I promised Professor Corrigan I would meet him half way, that he would understand my past with poetry and I will try doing it his way.
But I must say Joel isn’t my favorite when it comes to the Bible. Mostly because I am confused about what to think about it. And how and why Professor Corrigan was telling us to proclaim it to nature. So overall I did enjoy reading without the verses because I feel that if I read with verses I pause at each number instead of reading through the whole thing.

Also the whole time reading Joel I thought about this song we sang in church all the time:



They rush on the city, they run on the wall
Great is the army that carries out His Word
(Repeat)

The Lord utters His voice before His army
The Lord utters His voice before His army

They rush on the city, they run on the wall
Great is the army that carries out His Word

Blow the trumpet in Zion, Zion
Sound the alarm in my holy mountain
Blow the trumpet in Zion, Zion
Sound the alarm
(Repeat 2 times)

Sound the alarm
Sound the alarm