Poetry

In class Tuesday, we started to talk about poetry. We talked about all sorts of things associated with it and what makes it a vast topic. Everything from concrete vs. abstract, detail, imagery, description. sensory, metaphors, sound, and visuals. Abstract has a lot to do with love, anger, anxiety, fear, and success, and these are some of the main topics people talk about in their poems. Concrete deals with imagery descriptive words, nouns, etc.

We also mentioned that there are a lot of cliches used in poems, but personally that's okay because its difficult to portray what you are trying to say without using words that you already know and are so used to. Some examples of these words include love, flowers, soul mates, seasons, and even love at first sight. It's easy to use these words because they are usually the first ones you think about. However, if you use more complex words, you can get a deeper meaning with them.

A lot of the poems we read in class used some cliches like the poem "Tell me what you know about dismemberment", when it talks about rain. Sometimes these cliches are overused and they tend to get annoying. You wish for the author to be more creative instead of always talking about love. Personally i shouldn't be complaining because I do the same thing, but then again I don't really write any poetry.