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In class we have been doing a lot over poetry. Reading it, understanding it, and trying to find the deeper meaning. But why is it so hard? It seems almost impossible to understand what the writer is trying to tell you. The whole story is dressed up in fancy words and metaphors that mean something completely different then the way it would more commonly be taken. Why can they not just come out and say what they mean and save everyone from all the thinking and bad grades.
This week I read “Love and Other Catastrophes: A Mix Tape” by Amanda Holzer and I loved it. Even though it was a bunch of song titles put together I understood what it was saying. It didn’t have any huge describing words or analogies in it. So yes, it was awesome reading a poem and not getting lost after the first line.
Now there is always that chance that I could just be slow when it comes to poetry but it feels like no matter how many times I read over the same line I still do not get any closer to finding out what the author is really trying to tell me. Yes, the words are all very pretty and they rhyme, which is always fun and yeah, I feel more intelligent for reading them but it is not fun trying to put all of it together. Maybe if I were born in the older days back when every song wasn’t about smoking weed, then I could have understood it more.