Julia Longboat Week 11 Discussion

When listening and reading the different ways and specifics of poetry I have learned there is an actual science and system behind it. I’ve never been one to properly grasp the logistics of poetry, I always thought they were just words from the heart that very talented people were able to throw together in a fashionable manner. In the video Italian and Elizabethan Sonnets: Poetry Analysis they show a breakdown of a poem that rhymes and show how the numbered lines and how the one after rhymes with the first. I never knew there was almost a mathematical way of going about it. I also learned that Shakespeare happened at the same time as Queen Elizabeth and that the two can be called the same, a term I would’ve always over looked. My favorite thing about poetry and the era is was mostly popular is the lack of shame to express love and passion for something or someone.