When we learn to read poems, we acquire a pleasure and a resource we never loose. Poetry records and embodies centuries of human thought and emotion, preserving for us the minds of people who lived before us, who were like and unlike us, against whom we can measure our common humanity and our historical difference. Poetry has changed tremendously since the 19th century however, when we read our contempories, I feel that they illuminate a world we share. With all of these transformation in literature, poets from one hundred years ago wrote about topics which are still relevant in today’s modern world. It is remarkable that their written words can tell us more about our present, than they did about our past. Is it just an illusion that our world is evolving, or do these great poets have the power to see into the future?
When we read poetry something changes inside us that stays changed forever. To read poetry we must observe, measure, and judge the people and the properties of our universe - inside and outside. Poems can be anywhere: in a literature book, a magazine, or even on a popsicle stick. One never realizes how much poetry we see each day and the immense impact that it has on our lives. Once you read a piece of poetry
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Only one who experiences poetry is able to begin to define it, because it can mean a different thing to each person. This is because poetry brings things together that really belong together, but seem not to be. Poems with rhythm in them put me in a good mood and make reading poetry fun for me. One is that the father is physically beating the son, while the mother is watching with fear for her child. The other outlook is that they were just dancing around and having fun. My favorite defination of poetry was given by Matthew Arnold when he said: "Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and wisely effective mode of saying things.
As expressed above, poems can be interpreted many ways.
In my conviction, the use of a metaphor is essential to poetry and to its nature. I also enjoy reading poetry with alliteration, consonance, and assonance. It alters and enlarges our minds, our connections with each other, past and present, and our understanding of our own feelings. When I read a poem I feel it requires a special type of reading, different from a newspaper article that you read quickly for the facts. Studying the deeper meaning of poetry has been a challenge and an adventure. I have to read a poem many times to get my full interpretation of the meaning. As Percy Bysshe Shelley admits, “A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth.
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