Before today I thought poetry was the shortest way to write a story. Poetry was something that started a long time ago. While I wasn’t totally wrong, poetry is literature in the shortest form. I learned that in poetry the author has to find many ways to keep the lines short but meaningful. The author often uses similes and metaphors to give the readers a better image of the story. In “Sonnet 18” by William Shakespeare, we see Shakespeare the entire poem as a whole is a metaphor comparing the person to summer. Also in the poem, Shakespeare also uses even more metaphors to compare the person to summer, but the poem ends by saying the person is better than summer which gives the readers something to think about. So now I feel that poetry is something that you can’t just read to understand, its something that the readers need to analyze to find what the author is saying and thinking.
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That’s very true. Poems in general are quite interesting in that even though there’s some freedom and beauty in letting the words spill for the reader to pick the pieces and put them together. You still have to adhere to some structural rules. Timing, beats, rhyme and rhythm really challenges both reader and writer to think beyond their immediate belief of the craft and I really like that. I’ll admit it’s frustrating and sometimes it can be even boring. However, as you mentioned you cannot read it just to understand but you must also analyze to find out what is it that the author wants to express.
Wyman, how interesting that you used to think that a poem was just another kind of story. I’m sure you can see how different the two genres are as you read this week’s sonnets. Next week we’ll be reading some narrative poems, which do tell a story. Even so, you will see a vast difference between a prose story and a poem that tells a story.
Hello Wyman! I enjoyed reading your discussion. The way that you saw how poetry was written was close to how my peers in high school saw poetry as well so it brought a flashback. It definitely is a short way to write a story, but poetry explains so much more than a story won’t be able to. I enjoy when poets use figurative language in their pieces because it gives them so much understanding to see the poet’s point of view.