Blog #2 A Reflection on the Poetics of Poetry
Poetry. I love poetry. I love the appreciation of poetry. Reading, analyzing and writing poetry are three different things that somehow all play into each other. A poem can be read and simply appreciated. The reader can love the way the words made them feel, the words used, or the structure. Analyzing poetry is a bit more involved. There’s a whole language about poetry that needs to be learned before any analysis can take place. There’s counting and math attached to this learning process. This is the time when true understanding of artistry takes place. Poems are not cutesy, rhyming little ditties. They are serious work. Words like stanza, assonance, tetrameter, and quatrain become imperative to learn. It becomes apparent just how much work it takes when it’s time to write about poetry. Explication can only take place after a deep analytical process. Everything that is discovered in the analyzation then begins to help form an understanding of what was read. Writing about poetry is so