Discussion 4

Poetry in general is pretty boring to me, in this form. The language sometimes is doing too much, and I don’t like how  a lot of these writers and authors back then used the overly flowery language and eluded to everything, though I understand that the time period had that language normalized.  I appreciate straightforward writing that gets to the point and says what it is trying to say. In no way am I trying to take away from the impressiveness of these pieces and the skill that these writers possessed. The poems that I liked the best were the ones telling stories, the dramatic genre, the love poems and the other sonnets were kind of boring and sappy, which I guess is the point. My Last Duchess was an interesting story though, the only thing about it that kind of turned me away was the way the text is structured.