Personally, I have never been a fan of poetry, however, I do agree that it helps people understand and appreciate the world around us. Petry can offer people a way to empathize with one another. In its immediacy, poetry is a counsellor helping people to understand one another and leading us away from hate to love, from violence to mercy and pity. Since I have never been deeply interested in Poetry, all the activities in Week 11, helped me view it differently. The reading materials and the videos helped me deepen my knowledge of Poetry and showed me the importance of it in people’s lives. For example, I really liked “Sonnet 18” by William Shakespeare. In this sonnet, Shakespeare also claims to have the power to preserve his love’s beauty through poetry. Shakespeare uses Sonnet 18 to praise his beloved’s beauty and describe how their beauty is preferable to a summer day. The stability of love and its power to immortalize someone is the overarching theme of this poem. It deals with the theme of beauty and how it can be affected by prolonged lapses of time.
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Hi Nato! I enjoyed reading your post. This week’s readings really give a lot of information about poetry so all of us, those who didn’t understand it or those who never even read poetry, can understand its idea and the beauty of it. I can understand why some people would not connect to poetry since it’s a very dramatic, over-the-top kind of love writing. every line is really “power-packed”, and that is the idea, so each line means something. I also love “sonnet 18” perhaps because I love summer so it’s easier to relate to Shakespeare’s comparison of his lover.