What Does Poetry Mean To Me Essays

The poem was a great representation of what poetry should be and brought me back to my childhood which is why I chose it to be the best.I have no idea.I also like how the poem represents how poetry should be.Why does so much depend on a red wheelbarrow?I went through the five questions and tried to decipher the meaning of the poem and still came up with nothing.

Definition of poetry – line structure: The easiest way to recognize poetry is that it usually looks like poetry (remember what they say about ducks).A Definition Of Poetry What is poetry?” Sir Philip Sidney: “Poetry is a speaking picture… .Jean Cocteau: “Poetry is indispensible – if I only knew what for.So by strengthening language, poetry strengthens our relationship with the universe.

This poem explains me well, I read and read poetry but if it doesn’t rhyme I don’t like it and can never seem to understand the meaning of it.In “Introduction to Poetry” by Author Billy Collins, the major theme brought out is that, poetry is something to be experienced.Billy Collins has described analyzing poetry in a very pleasurable and unique way.By the title of the poem, it brings my imagination to think of a college course class, Introduction to poetry 101. .Collins wants the students to have fun with the poem and not “begin beating it with a hose” (15).

The speaker address the reader by saying if you can appreciate rawness in all its power, then you can appreciate poetry in all its rawness.One must make a distinction however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the poets among us can be literalists of the imagination”.She also states its important cause with these abilities it is vital and important because they are useful not just for poetry but for other things.“In the meantime, if you demand on the one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, you are interested in poetry.This tells me that the speaker explains that reading poetry with perfect understanding is hard and confusing, but its...

He locates this poem (as he does in most of his poetry) and tries to make it concrete by using descriptions such as "the oily water on the river mirrored by the red sky, sun sank on top of Frisco peaks .But Allen changes his beat up by writing his poetry in a prosy form.Hearing him read his poem (or any of his poetry for that matter) 'America' on tape allows one to hear the magic and performance that Allen implemented in his poetry with his own voice.Even though Allen's poetry is more prosy than Jacks, Allen's poetry was also meant to be read out loud.But like Jack his religious back round also tends to taint his buddhistic perspective in his poetry.

Both are looking for the “treasure in the jewelled skies”, meaning that poetry and science are both trying to find the same answers, but science is much more efficient and poetry is not able to recover lost ground.The “peering eyes” are referring to the scientific method of examining every detail carefully, also a characteristic that poetry lacks of.Also in the second stanza, Poe writes that science “would not leave him in his wandering to seek for the treasure in the jeweled skies”; this is a metaphor describes the competition between science and poetry.With this metaphor Poe puts poetry in a weak a nearly dead position and with science’s “wings [which] are dull realities” the poet could be recognizing that, in contrary to poetry, scien...

In addition, he states how ‘no big words [are] involved’ and that ‘pages of written words’ are ‘not needed’, showing that he believes that poetry is all about the meaning behind the words, as well as the ‘riddim’ rather than how it is presented or structured, and the fact that there are ‘no big words’ shows how poetry should be accessible to everyone, not just those who are well-read.He initially writes how ‘dis poetry is not Party Political’, which could be used to suggest that poetry is not meant to affect the real world, and should be taken too seriously, but is instead simply something that everyone can enjoy.He also writes how ‘anybody can do it fe free’ and that ‘dis poetry is fe yu an me’, further showcasing his views on how poetr...

Poetry to me has to have structure and meaning because without it we are left with confusion and wondering all these questions of what the author is trying to portray.Memories are the best way to describe our lives and when it comes to using them in poetry they require structure.My meth lab tends to explode.” In this poem Robbins continues to go on and does not correlate with what was said before.How can we tell what Robbins is saying if all he does is move from one topic to another.Throughout reading The Best of the Best American Poetry, most of the poems I read in the book were narrative poems.

Poetry as Sisyphean task; one is compelled to repeat the effort, and not without the feeling that they’ve done this before.She tries to make a point of the importance and usefulness of poetry to a person.The commotion of the animals, the pushing elephants, the rolling horses, the tireless yet immobile Wolf, seem like analogues to restless mind Moore at one time might have desired to have calmed by the writing of poetry.For she is a poet sharing her negative opinion of poetry, I am assuming.She seems not a little dismayed that poetry is only part of our restless species behavior and that the language we write and expound to bring coherence to the waking life are only more sounds being made in an already noisy existence.

In the first two lines of the song, “Listen as the wind blows / From across the great divide,” the great divide can vary in meaning, one is the North American Atlantic or Pacific divide and can mean that she is living near the seaside, or the great divide being heaven and hell and she is probably a spirit or is dead already.Scattered throughout the song are different elements of poetry.In today’s modern times, there are various literary types, some still uncategorized.Oh you speak to me in riddles and / You speak to me in rhymes,” as can be interpreted in these lines, the refusal to be possessed, because the person to be possessed is probably trying to tell the singer that he or she does not want him, and the singer is in denial hence, t...

Ever since Gorge Herbert’s day, poets have continued to experiment with the looks of printed poetry.Literature An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama.This is one aspect that we can enjoy the poetry.Definitions will be of little help at first, if we are to know poetry and respond to it.The nature of poetry eludes simple definitions.

4) Although she was deeply religious, what else did Ann Bradstreet show appreciation for in her poetry?Some Pin points that I can point out is in both they are calling on god for help and feeling like something is on their backs and they trying to let themselves know that everything is fine , because it is just life.Her Husband ”I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold” This can mean that no matter what her love for her husband is worth more than gold like her love for him is worth more than anything its priceless.She also wrote for herself in her poetry.For example in Edward Taylor Poem he says “Make me, O Lord, thy Spin[n]ing Wheele compleat;” Basically saying he needs help with what is going on.

In “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” by Robert Herrick (391), the element of poetry that stands out most for me in the poem is personification.In “What lips my lips have kisses, and where, and why” by Edna St. Vincent Millay (page number?), the element of poetry that stands out most for me in the poem is alliteration.... middle of paper ... .The octave follows a rime pattern “a = why / sigh / reply / cry, b = lain / rain / pain / again” talking about the author’s memories about her past love adventures that she can no longer remember precisely how many, where and why she did it.

Both of these poems have helped me understand more about poetry and what it’s about.That poetry is about having fun and to be experienced by everyone.Poetry is intended to be enjoyed, anyone can do it, it doesn’t need to be over analyzed.Through doing this, the poet helps me understand that poetry is about experiencing poetry, and not holding back but in fact diving in.That poetry doesn’t need to be “ tied to a chair and tortured”, so it gives a confession that it doesn’t have to be an expert that needs to analyze it, anyone can do it.

It projected me to medieval England; intoxicated by the poet's dreams, I imagined I was a nightingale, free of human concerns of poverty, life, and death.An idea that humane, enclosed in a brilliant and beautiful frame of poetry, is what makes "To a mouse" so moving and makes us reflect about how humanity treats nature.It kept me focused and attentive while I read it, but the aesthetic pleasure it gave me proved not worth my time.The poem is especially rich in allusions; once you unravel the hidden meanings of the words, you feel connected with the author, at a distance of two centuries.Poetry does defy death and time.

Since Herbert is a metaphysical and religious poet, his poetry always ends with a metaphysical conceit.George Herbert’s style in his collection of religious poetry, The Temple, is very short, clear, concise, and gets to the point.Usually, his ending message is that people must sacrifice what they have if they want a better, blessed life.Herbert’s poetry is meant to teach people to be good Christians, and by constructing the poem around biblical metaphors, the message is received.Another way architectural structure takes place in poetry is by the use of figurative language.

Well, metaphysical conceit defines poetry in its best possible way as poetry by nature and definition defies generally accepted truth and logic which creating a truth of a poetic differing kind.In contrast to this, Emily Dickinson’s poetry is self-reflective if not autobiographical of her thoughts.The similarity lies in the fact that both of them commenced as metaphysical poets but Emily Dickinson remained one for the rest of her life but George Herbert switched from metaphysical poetry to simpler and comprehensive form of poetry.Herbert initially produced one after the other poetry containing metaphysical conceit in depth but later the realization dawned upon him that as a Christian poet being metaphysical in poetry was in a way being c...

Many of the women depicted in Wyatt’s poetry are not described, only their actions are record.Illuminated miniatures were drawings that were used to frame poetry in the renaissance period and earlier, and Wyatt’s lack thereof demonstrates his simple style, but complex meaning.As Baldi suggests, Wyatt’s poetry did not ‘linger’ over ‘glimpses’ of his lady’s beauty, as Petrarch’s poetry before him had done.Still, ‘Whoso list to hunt’ does not focus so much on the beautiful appearance of the deer, but upon the detail that she is ‘owned’ by another man, and this is the cause of the speaker’s pointless anguish.This attitude towards women and courtly love makes him one of the originators of the convention in love poetry in which the mistress is...

It is as if he didn’t even plan out his poetry and what he was going to write, he just grabbed a pen and allowed the poem to write itself with ease.I find this can make a person who doesn’t particularly like reading poetry, feel it to be quite simple and enjoyable to read.What I like about the poetry is the multi-faceted man who emerges.The poetry of William Butler Yeats intrigues me greatly, particularly because of his use of symbols throughout and I very much enjoy ruminating on the meanings within.I feel that his use of quite simple and non-complex words results in there being a wider range of people reading his poetry.

This poem is not as deceptive as Frost’s other poetry, e. g. , ‘Out-Out’, although it is still to be understood at a deeper level.I now understand the importance of endurance of Frost’s poetry, without deciphering his poetry; he may well have the power to deceive his reader.Frost’s poetry, in my opinion, is deceptive, if not understood properly.‘’If poetry isn’t understanding at all, the whole word, then isn’t worth anything.I really enjoyed deciphering this poem in particular as there is so much meaning in it which could’ve easily deceived a reader; it is the psychological complexities of his deceiving poetry that strike me the most.

She was living ahead of her time–for her poetry was not appreciated in her own lifetime and was, in fact, rejected.Emily Dickinson’s poetry mostly reflects her feelings towards death and the projected events after death.As a poet, she was a very inward, and wrote about feelings that came from deeply within her–unlike other poets of her time whose societies were directly shown in their poetry (i.e.-Walt Whitman).Her world was bounded by her home and its surrounding countryside, so in turn the great events of her time were never seen in any of her poetry.The why, what, when, where, how questions all come together as you delve deeper into the authors ideas behind her poems and the influential factors of the author’s life.

Poetry has been known to employ meter and rhyme, but this is by no means necessary.I dedicate this poetry book to my mom.Poetry is sometimes hard to understand but other times it’s as easy as one, two, and three.Sometimes people turn to poetry to vent their feelings, to tell their high school sweetheart they still love them, to get over grief and etc.Poetry can be anything you want it to be.

He highlights in the preface that he desires to show how ‘feeling… gives importance to the action and the situation’ in the poetry, and not the other way around.Wordsworth’s appreciation of nature was definitely prominent in much of his works, and he tells us that it is important to him ‘because in that condition of life our elementary feelings coexist in a state of greater simplicity, and, consequently, may be more accurately contemplated, and more forcibly communicated’ to the reader of his poetry.One of the clearer comparisons to be made between the two is Eliot’s assertion that the writer, by depersonalising himself from his work, will be able to provide ’emotions which he has never experienced [and they] will serve his turn as we...

And I’ve grown familiar .We, as artists must engage with the demons that push us forward so that poetry created will live on long after the artist has gone.I think that is a lesson I have learned throughout the semester: just because the poem needs to go through revision (probably until I die), does not mean I have failed as a poet.How true that is.They beg me to write them .

Eliot himself, in whose poetry frequent ‘criss-crossing’ of references emerges.Eliot himself says that there may be several reasons for difficulty in poetry.The poetry of the Realists chose words and images and arranged them “…to set up a complex criss-crossing of associations…” and set up their poems as an “…endless maze.” .However, one theory on poetry is that a poem does not mean, it is.Which seems to go against the widely held view that Eliot is deliberately elitist – his poetry is frequently obscure and its allusions, learnedness and quotations which make some of his poetry -particularly “The Wasteland” – difficult to understand.

I then knew that all I had to do was translate the dead language of poetry into terms I could understand, then, with a blinding flash, comprehension dawned.Poetry, on the other hand, has been like a curse to me.The emotions of the poems were almost too overwhelming to deal with.The writings of Shakespear also have the added benefit of being like poetry.Once I was told that as we evolve, so to does our language.

In my opinion you also mean to explore, rather ironically, the creative process and the writing of poetry through poetry.It was written in response to the troubles in Northern Ireland and I feel that using the medium of poetry you search for an answer to modern problems in the past as it is well known that history is constantly repeating itself.I believe that it was one of the most memorable experiences of my whole life reading your poetry and I mean that in a good way.It is something I will never look back upon doing in a negative light as I have gained some very important insights into life, love, tradition and conflict resolution from this.It is both sensuous and sensual as you begin to smell “Small oranges” and see the “desk light so...

Linton Kwesi Johnson is also a dub poet who expresses his feelings about injustice through poetry.Throughout the whole poem Zephaniah keeps a constant rhythm of an average 7 or 8 syllables per line.Though there is a lot of aggression in Zephaniah’s poems, he still keeps the fun of poetry in his poems.‘I have learnt that equality may not mean freedom  and freedom  may not mean liberation’ .This shows that Benjamin Zephaniah believes that society has been brainwashed into thinking that equality means freedom because a mask of ‘equality’ is present, the system is fair, just and unprejudiced.

If someday I become hooked to reading poetry, I can look back and know these two poems are what got me addicted.Poetry has always been difficult for me to read because of my mild case of dyslexia.One of the main reason that I am writing about these two poems are because they are the only ones that I know of because that is what we talked about in class and I have never read poetry in my life.As you can see, they are many similarities and differences in the way that William Shakespeare and John Donne write in “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” and “The Flea”.What I didn’t know was how successful and influential his poetry was.

As a student now finally gaining a respect for poetry it is nice to see what a poem writer thinks about his job.It is amazing to see that a poem can be made of any topic, and maybe that provides another point in the description of poetry.This could be taken as a derogatory comment to the simplicity and complacency of past poetry.He gives examples of what things would work as “modern poetry”.While I cannot claim to fully understand Stevens’ view of modern poetry, I feel that through his poem I can form some conclusions about his beliefs.