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Jul 05, 2013 09:47AM
this is a question that i posted on my allpoetry site and i wanted to post it on here to see if i got answers it's for a new poem that i'm writing
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I am not a fan of reading poetry cause mainly I don't understand what the poet is trying to convey sometimes. But I do enjoy writing poems. Mostly ballads ! And for me writing is telling my feelings ! So it depends what mood I am in!
Erie wrote: "this is a question that i posted on my allpoetry site and i wanted to post it on here to see if i got answers it's for a new poem that i'm writing"Little piece of honesty here. I love poetry, I really do, but some of what I read I don't understand. For example, I got ahold of this really old book of French poetry and I love to read out of it. However, I don't understand a word of it. I have looked some of the poems up to get the gist but I like the way the words feel in my mouth (that probably sounds odd) and I like the way they sound.
For poetry I do understand most of it doesn't make me feel a particular way, I just like it. I dated a guy who wrote me poetry and some of it made me feel. The one I like best is one that he wrote about us running together and it makes me happy to read :)
When I read a poem that speaks to me, I first feel struck by some invisible force and I pause as it sinks in and wonder, what just happened? Then I reread it and there it is, only something more, an image, a feeling, a stirring of something hits me, a half-remembered memory or the impression of something whether overall the impact is bittersweet or thought-provoking.Depending on the poem, of course. Some more radical, pain-filled poetry given at poetry slams leave me raw and vulnerable, exposed and even angry. My favorite poet is Robert Frost. HTH
Poetry for me has been a way of expressing feelings and emotions I wouldn't have otherwise said verbally. I started writing after the break up of an 18 year relationship left me feeling suicidal with guilt at being the reason why my ex lover cheated. Now I write to express various emotions, having moved forward in life, marrying my beautiful wife and being blessed wifh two wonderful children.I'm not going to say poetry saved my life, but it allowed me an avenue in which to vent and portray my otherwise bottled up emotions.
Poetry constantly suprises me. With only one word, i can feel so much emotion. So much thought is conveyed through very few words. Unlike stories etc. poetry gets to the heart of the point so quickly, and you instantly can gleam what the poet is saying. It is emotionally touching because of the sharp acuteness in which each, single, word means so much.
I love poetry, mostly because there is usually another meaning than the one what you initially think. Its really great to read something and being able to go back, read it again and find something completely new. I just wish I was better at writing it :/
Reading and writing poetry drowns me.And I like it.
I don't dislike poetry, but I don't particularly like it, either. I guess that I've never really geared myself towards writing it and constantly, on state standardized tests, it's beaten to death and students have basically been bred to hate poetry, at least in New York. It's just that every time we read it, we are forced to over analyze it. You're supposed to see and read and feel the emotions...so what happens if you don't feel them, and you're forced to bs your way through an essay and pretend you did?
Right, same way in Tennessee, they cram it down our throats and expect us to like it. I do happen to like it a bit though. It's fun to write, and expressive.
Reading poetry either bores me, inspires me or changes me for the worse/better.
Poetry is annoying when it is forced. I hate when we have to 'dissect' poems in English class. I like Shakespeare though - I understand it, but not many people in my school do. I often read epic poetry (ie. Dante) like it's normal prose, and not really poetry (because the translation I read is in blank verse).
I'd be living in two separate worlds reading and writing poetries.While reading, I imagine, think and look for matters of speculation. Every individual would have their approach perceiving poetry they'd read or listen to. I try to understand what the main point is and what small factors go along in contrast to it. That's when I'd feel the essence of the seeds or roots of what a poet has put up.
When it comes to writing, it comes to imagining things & feeling wonders about something. But most often, the interest in the subject makes the mind wander around it and make those feelings real, which makes it comfortable to write what needs to be put in words. The poem may or may not be written for an audience, it would simply be a wish to express the feelings, emotions and the lively soul for the conceptual subject of the matter.
It depends on what kind of poem it is.Some are sad,or they can be happy.
Like I've sort of said, I love reading poetry. It's great. There are wonderful, beautiful poems out there. I don't like having to analyze it for a grade. Poems are feelings, NOT torture. When I read poems (particularly those by Maya Angelou and Emily Dickinson) for my own enjoyment, I LOVE THEM!!! Writing poems doesn't really make me feel anything. In fact, it's the opposite. When I feel something, my general response is writing, often poetry. So when I'm angry or sad, I write poems. It's sort of odd how my feelings translate, though; if you flip through my poem boom, you'll see days when I write several poems. One can be a crazy, stupid poem about birds that sounded like a kindergartener wrote it. The next is an angry rant that sounds totally exaggerated, and right after it could be something perfectly serene. And they were all caused by the same emotion. Hmm...
