We are now starting poetry and I will admit poetry is not my favorite thing in the world, most likely because I couldn't write good poetry if my life depended on it. I find it hard to find the right words to use to express what I'm feeling and make it sound beautiful. However, just because I don't like writing poetry doesn't mean I don't like reading it. Poetry is amazing and I love the way poets can choose the perfect words to paint a picture in the readers mind with such vividness. Poetry evokes such emotion so that the reader can feel the poets pain, sorrow, happiness or whatever emotion it may be at that time.
On top of not being able to write poetry, I also find it hard to depict poetry and find the underlying meaning or purpose of the poem. Some poems are easy to find that meaning but others I have to pick my brain and read the poem many times to find it. For instance in class we were talking about a poem and everyone was coming up with all these deep thoughts from the poem that I did not see when I read the same poem. This unit will be hard for me but hopefully it will help me to think more critically instead of so superficially, so I can unravel the thoughts and emotions in poetry.
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