Poetry is an acquired taste…. as for me, I favor Shakespeare (“Band of Brothers” speech), Kipling ( The Ballad Of East and West), Macauley (Horatius at the Bridge) and Milton (the sonnet “On His Blindness”) . All of these works speak to me, WAY deep down in my heart. But that took YEARS to develop.
In elementary school we were asked to pick a poem and write about what it meant. A classmate wrote his own poem and told what it meant (without saying he wrote it). The teacher told him he was all wrong.
Learning to read and write poetry is very helpful when it comes to reading and understanding symbolic and figurative language, even if you never read poetry on its own after school. That especially applies to song lyrics.
cdward almost 4 years ago
I get it. You don’t like poetry. So just leave it to those who do.
Thorby almost 4 years ago
Poetry is an acquired taste…. as for me, I favor Shakespeare (“Band of Brothers” speech), Kipling ( The Ballad Of East and West), Macauley (Horatius at the Bridge) and Milton (the sonnet “On His Blindness”) . All of these works speak to me, WAY deep down in my heart. But that took YEARS to develop.
trainnut1956 almost 4 years ago
The greatest poet in American history was Burmashave!
Yakety Sax almost 4 years ago
“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.” Carl Sandburg
“Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.” Charles Simic
“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.” Leonard Cohen
“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.” Marianne Moore
“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.” Robert Frost
“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.” Thomas Gray
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.” Wallace Stevens
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47652/because-i-could-not-stop-for-death-479
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47652/because-i-could-not-stop-for-death-479
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42916/jabberwocky
Skeptical Meg almost 4 years ago
In elementary school we were asked to pick a poem and write about what it meant. A classmate wrote his own poem and told what it meant (without saying he wrote it). The teacher told him he was all wrong.
MCProfessor almost 4 years ago
I love poetry. I don’t appreciate the newer free verse as much. I miss the rhyme and rhythm of the older forms.
edreajr almost 4 years ago
Poetry? How’s about “Here I sit all broken hearted, tried…”, uh, never mine. Forget I said anything.
jbarnes almost 4 years ago
Learning to read and write poetry is very helpful when it comes to reading and understanding symbolic and figurative language, even if you never read poetry on its own after school. That especially applies to song lyrics.