I always had a negative view towards poetry, because I found it dull and boring. Poems usually aren’t straightforwards and you always have to read between the lines so it takes time to digest. At the end of the day, I wasn’t feeling anything nor did it strike me in anyway. But after several classes focusing on poetry, I left classes with something. Especially Shakespeare’s Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day where I found this poem to be comical and amusing, and it changed my perspective on poetry as a whole. I found Shakespearean poems interesting than 19th century or modern ones, since Shakespearean poems, or at least the ones we read, focused on themselves and their ordinary lives while the modern ones focused on social issues.
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Luka, thanks for the honest comments. I’m wondering if you mean Sonnet 130 “My Mistress’s Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun” in which the speaker reels off a list of horrible insults. I see what you mean about the difference in the subject matter between the modern poem and the older ones. That’s an interesting observation.
I always thought that poetry was boring too. I was saying that what is interesting about analyzing an Unstraightforward text full of riddle of a random person. However, after a while during a French literature I encounter some Victor Hugo poems that change my mind. He uses that complicated language of poetry to protest again social injustice even at that time France was ruled by a king. It was so courageous to stand up against a king, and so smart to use poetry as a weapon.