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.

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