Poetry

Writing poetry requires a knack for looking at the world in unusual ways, for example, creating new and innovative ways to say the same thing. It requires a lot of the time and thought in order to create fresh expressions that will make a poem more aesthetically pleasing. In writing poetry, I’ve also found that contemporary poetry writes about an individual theme using a universal subject as the backdrop. If it sounds complicated, it is. With writing poetry, I don’t think it’s supposed to be easy. I think the writer is suppose to lose something when writing a poem, and this loss from the poet will be highlighted and will make the poem all the more rich for the audience to read.

In writing about poetry, the analyst has to be ready to go into a vague, richly detailed poem in order to show others what you got out of it. Writing about poetry can be just as difficult as writing poetry. For instance, when I was reading “Mont Blanc” by Percy Shelly, I couldn’t understand the poem for the life of me. It took my professor to almost shove my face in the poem and point to me what the poet was trying to get at. I think the perfect person to write about poetry is a poet, because a poet will have, at the very least, the basic tools and vocabulary to amply analyze a poem.

I guess what I’m saying is that those who want to write about poetry should write poetry themselves. This way, they will have that much more of an understanding of how to write about poetry.