Hyperboles,Similes,Metaphors are some of the figures of speech found in Poetry. Poetry is an intense way to see the world,it's a world on it's own if you get to understand it.It's a different way to show the world to others though your own eyes.Many people avoid poetry simply because they don't understand it and refuse to try and work with it.This week we started to work with poetry in class,which made a lpt of people nervous with all the rhyme patterns and schemes one can handle.To be frank with you guys I didn't like any of the poems given in class,but I will talk about them.Let's start with "The Being Brand" which is poem that works with alot of metaphors if you read calmly you'll understand that he is talking about the virginity of a young lady and comparing it to a brand new care.This man takes care of his car and lets the reader know that the only thing hard is to get the car started afterwards it's not so difficult driving it.Once again good metaphors help us understand better what we are reading,such as the brand new car to the virgin.Moving on to "Latin night @ the Pawnshop" with has a sad tone,it all starts when the author sees these music instruments in a pawnshop window display with the tags dangling and compares them to tags dangling of a dead mans body in the morgue.The author remembers his beautiful Island and the music that could be played with those instruments(salsa) while starring @ the window display in Massachusetts on Christmas season.Some poems are easy o understand and others are abstract.Some times all we need is a little time and patience to understand what we are reading.I'm not going to lie I have wiritten a poem or two,but I dont consider myself to be poet,I consider myself to understand a different language.
Personal Opinion
Poetry is not for everybody,instead of avoiding it we should try and work with it.Personally I like to use similes and metaphors and will continue using them,i'm just glad to know that I will learn more.Poetry was understood since the beggining of times why should it be any harder @ the end of them???
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I agree with you when you say that poetry isn't for everyone. Poetry is just hard to understand because of the many parts o elements it includes. You have to analize a poem and try to see it the same way in which the author wrote it...
Poetry is very difficult to understand because of the vast literary elements it uses to create a simple image. There are so many different ways to describe something that, in most cases, it ends confusing the reader. But poetry is the best way to lock our feelings and imagination in order to push the reader to find and decode the mystery and the secret behind those groups of words we call poem.
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