Poetry
Since no official topic has been posted, I'm going to talk about what we discussed today: poetry. I personally don't understand why everyone was going on about it being "stupid" or "whiny" or deserving of hate. Honestly, I'm not a literary scholar and I don't have a passion for literature, but seriously? Poetry is easy.
Short stories and essays end up dragging on page after page, and for what? It normally ends with one main point and a handful of symbols; it ends up having less meaning than a poem at twenty times the length. What's good about poetry is that you know that every line, almost every word, has some sort of meaning to it (which normally ends up totaling to like 50 words).
I know it's not always super short or super simple, and sometimes it’s long and complex, but if you just think about it, it's not that bad. I think everyone just has this preconceived notion that poetry is the worst thing ever and impossible to read. I'm not going to lie; I used to think that way too... until I got to my junior year of high school. Once you get past that idea, you'll realize how much of a break you really get when you're assigned a poetry assignment. If anything, the 3 page maximum for the essay will probably be too little: there's always way too much you can go into detail with when it comes to poetry. Just look at the second to last poem we read, “On Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. It was only fourteen lines, and the entire poem is explained in the first two lines: “They say Ideal Beauty cannot enter The house of anguish. On the threshold stands an alien image with enshackled hands, Called the Greek Slave!” (Pike, Acosta 225). But the best part is, if I can, I’ll probably end up choosing this poem for my paper; it’s filled with symbols and the main idea is, to me, an interesting one. I’ve just realized that I’ve gone way over the word requirement, so I’ll just end it here.
Works Cited?
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “On Hiram Powers' Greek Slave.” Literature: A World of Writing. Ed. Joseph Terry. New York: Pearson Education, 2011. 225. Print.
Short stories and essays end up dragging on page after page, and for what? It normally ends with one main point and a handful of symbols; it ends up having less meaning than a poem at twenty times the length. What's good about poetry is that you know that every line, almost every word, has some sort of meaning to it (which normally ends up totaling to like 50 words).
I know it's not always super short or super simple, and sometimes it’s long and complex, but if you just think about it, it's not that bad. I think everyone just has this preconceived notion that poetry is the worst thing ever and impossible to read. I'm not going to lie; I used to think that way too... until I got to my junior year of high school. Once you get past that idea, you'll realize how much of a break you really get when you're assigned a poetry assignment. If anything, the 3 page maximum for the essay will probably be too little: there's always way too much you can go into detail with when it comes to poetry. Just look at the second to last poem we read, “On Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. It was only fourteen lines, and the entire poem is explained in the first two lines: “They say Ideal Beauty cannot enter The house of anguish. On the threshold stands an alien image with enshackled hands, Called the Greek Slave!” (Pike, Acosta 225). But the best part is, if I can, I’ll probably end up choosing this poem for my paper; it’s filled with symbols and the main idea is, to me, an interesting one. I’ve just realized that I’ve gone way over the word requirement, so I’ll just end it here.
Works Cited?
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. “On Hiram Powers' Greek Slave.” Literature: A World of Writing. Ed. Joseph Terry. New York: Pearson Education, 2011. 225. Print.