Written response to "What is Comics Poetry?"

     Personally enjoyed in the first page second paragraph that starts by making the reader question the meaning behind "comic poetry", then it continues explaining poetry being more than rhythmic stanzas after another, but as form of narrative. Before, reading each page i would look at the images and i found funny that the writer talks about Scott McCloud's "closure" theory, where someone looks at multiple images in a sequence therefore naturally trying to connect them together even though they may be completely different and distant from each other, but the fact they may be put next to each other can create the closure theory. I was drawn to the continues enforcement towards the importance of juxtaposition in comic poetry, how ironic drawing of cartooning will create the reader to linger the mystery behind the puzzle of the panels creating sometimes their own plot if there is no captions.

     The demonstration of connection the panels together is shown in the structure of going back and forth with the angles of characters perception of the other while having a conversation in the car. I think also culture has to do with how western culture has the reading from left to right, therefore depending on the culture of the writer it will show the structure of how to properly read the comic. For most of the reading i was confused on the repetitive use of "openness" which i came to the conclusion the writer is saying he is free for interpretation throughout his work, when in fact at the end he says, "i mean something different than anything can go". I like throughout the reading the constant self questions he made, making it look like a one-to-one conversation rather than speaking to a large crowd the writer's choice of writing style, along with visual interpretations making the reading a lot easier; therefore leaving the answers to the readers imagination instead of giving them a straight answer.