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Drama, how it makes me feel.

My experiences with drama are actually pretty intense. In high school I went to se the show Wicked on Broadway in New York, while marching in the Macys Thanksgiving Day parade with my high school band. I also worked with the theater department for my high school I helped build props, stage setting, lighting and many other aspects on the production side of drama. Not only have I worked or prop building, but I also played in the pit orchestra for three years. I was never an actor in the plays our school did but I was always a part of them. I played the French horn in productions such as In to the woods, Les Miserable and Evita. It was always fun but really hard work because you always had to play exactly the same because people were depending on you to play it the same because they were singing along. It was extremely frustrating working with a perfectionist director who kept wanting to do the same scene over and over again until it was right because we would sometimes play the same three lines of music for about an hour sometimes.

Drama to me is extremely versatile and interesting because there are many different kinds of drama. There is serious drama, musicals, Shakespearian, and even comedy.  There is no way to hate drama because there is a sub drama out there for everybody. Even though I love musicals (who doesn’t?) my favorite is dramas are the more funny ones, such as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead and a midsummer nights dream. Simply because they are funny and not serious such as Death of A salesmen or Hamlet. Those are good drams, don’t get men wrong, but I like funny dramas just a little better. Also Romeo and Juliet is way over quoted, used, and referenced, it is a good story about teenagers “falling in love instantly” then killing themselves but come on use something else for a change.

Poetry is cool.

What have I learned about poetry so far? Well so far I have learned that poetry is infinitely full of meanings, deep to simple. Within a single poem people can find, as many meanings as there are people to read the poem. I have learned to look further into the deep meaning and intricacies of the poems. Every word in a poem is put there for some reason; every word has a purpose not just to fill space.

Words are very important in poems because poems are generally shorter than other works of literature, such as no fiction, dram and short stories. These types of literature can be as long as books some times and have pages or even chapters to a variable amount of time to evoke feelings. Poems however are generally much shorter and don’t have the space or the time to go into lengthy detail like a novel, but yet they still evoke deep and sometimes even complicated feeling in less than a few pages and even in a few lines. The power, order and even lack of words are what is key to poetry. What novels do in chapters, a poem can do in a single line and some time in a single word.

I have come to the conclusion that because poems are so much shorter that other works of literature, that is what gives poems more room for interpretations. Writers of poems choose words that specifically have more than the obvious meanings so that people can choose what to take away from the poem rather than just describing, poetry works hard at evoking feelings. I have learned that if given time and intelligent thought poetry can be fun and enjoyable to read. Although one can find deep meaning in a poem it is a lot harder to find and one must go searching to find it when reading poetry.