Posted by Lilya Mitelman, 2/28/04 at 4:21:54 PM.
Response to Poetry
I think that what this piece was trying to say is that you should just let poetry hit you instead of planning for it and overanalyzing and deciding ahead of time how you're going to go about deciphering it.
I've always looked at poetry as an emotion, a pure emotion set on paper.
When I was younger I used poetry as a way to get my feelings out. I could never do it in essay form and was never one to keep a journal. One night, I just began writing my feelings on paper. The words came out quickly and the rhymes naturally. I began writing a lot of poetry as a healing tool for when I was sad. This was in the eighth grade. It seems many girls were writing poetry around that time.
I hated showing it to others though because it felt like a personal thing. It's just for me. And if someone were to sit and analyze it I don't think I would have liked that very much. It's not there for you to analyze, it's there for me to get my feelings out.
When I read a poem I just try to feel it, not think it.
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