Poetry

To everyone poetry can be different. Some people really love reading and writing poetry, where others like me are not to fond of it. My biggest struggle with poetry is I sometimes find it hard to understand or hard to follow and find the whole meaning. I usually like things to be presented in a very straight manner and most poetry is not. One thing I have learned from this class so far though is if I look at poetry line by line I can find beauty in it and actually start to enjoy it.

One of the poems I found my self really enjoying was Shakespeare's sonnet 118.  I like the form of his sonnets with his rhyme scheme. I feel like it makes the poem have a good flow to it when reading it. This poem itself was not also hard for me to understand which was another reason I like it. I believe this poem is about him feeling like love is a sickness. You cant control being in love and there is no cure for it. It just sneaks up on you and kinda happens. My favorite line from this sonnet is, "But thence I learn, and find the lesson true, Drugs poison him that so fell sick of you". I just really feel like anyone who has been in love before relate and find beauty in this sonnet.

Another poem I enjoyed was Emily Dickson's poem that was labeled 377. This poem didn't have a rhyme scheme but instead did something I liked with the first word of every line. The first set of lines all start with the word Under, the second set switches between the words Further and Were, and the third set uses the word Over.  I hadn't seen that in a poem before and I really liked how it made the poem feel. I also enjoyed how this poem made you think the whole poem who she was creating distance between and she waits till the very end revealing it with the line, "Between Ourselves and the Dead!'.

The last poem I found myself enjoying was And What Do You Get by Heather McHugh. Although I do not completely understand the whole meaning of the poem I enjoy how the poem does make you think. It makes you take words and remove letters to form new words to see what you get. I thought this was different then any other poem I have read and I like how it actually gets you to interact with the poem instead of simply just reading it.