My New Found Understanding
The readings of this class seemed to have got my mind rolling on what poetry really is and what can I get out of it. Coming into this course I thought why in the world do you not just come out and say what you want to say instead of writing something hard to understand like poetry. Then the dreaded thing happened . . . I looked at my first reading assignment for this course and it was poetry. Not only was it poetry but one of the poems actually was named “Poetry” (Moore 146). So needless to say, I am thinking what have I got my self into and how am I going to make it through this thing that troubles me the most, poetry. What must be done must be done; I began reading. Once getting into the first section, “Poetry” and “Ars Poetica” began to define what poetry was. While on the other hand, “Love is Not All: It Is Not Meat Nor Drink” and “You Fit Into Me” helped me develop this new found understanding of what is to be taken from poetry. The poems helped me have somewhat of an understanding of why in the world someone would read poetry or even worse write it. The poem “Poetry” (Moore 146) began to answer my question what is poetry. In the beginning of the poem she describes how poems should balance t
The next poem was “You Fit into Me” by Margaret Atwood. This was a short four line poem that shows what poetry can do that no other form of writing can do; say so much by writing so little. The poem reads as this: The poem shows the concept of love in a whole different perspective. She shows how love is a perfect match of two individuals but it also shows the pain that love can bring with it. This poem brings love back to reality showing the good and the bad of love. These poems show how poetry can open the reader’s mind about ideas the author feels of importance. Poetry is a form of art that is used to put the author’s emotions and stories on paper. The author uses this art form to get his or her points across and allows the reader to feel what the author is feeling. Whether these feelings are sadness, happiness, anger, or loneliness the goal is for you to feel what emotion they are trying to convey. The next two works that we were to read began to describe the deep concept of love.
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