Poetry

Poetry has been around for awhile and, like novels, poems vary in length and can sometimes be difficult to understand. Nevertheless, they are powerful and able to convey a story and emotions in a number of lines. While novels may make you feel as if you are watching a scene the author constructed, poems make you feel what the author felt. They express the feelings that the poets suffer through as they write them, forcing the reader to feel the same thing. They may be a bit dramatic at times but they do feel more personal than a story impersonal to an author. 

In some cases, poems seem to portray too much emotion and take us too deep into the mind of a poet. For example, The Flea by John Donne expresses ideas that would never have crossed my mind had I not read this poem. It tells of a man attempting to convince a woman that it would not be a sin for them to be together since their blood is already intermingled inside of a flea that just bit them. I don't know about you, but talk of blood and mosquitoes does not exactly make me swoon, although it may make me faint from nausea. 

No poem is like another: they each bring forth different emotions and ideas worded in a way that makes us feel what they feel. They flow in a way that makes us want to keep reading, and gets better when read aloud. Poems are very different from other forms of writing and, while they may take some getting used to, are a way for us to connect with other people and understand feelings and thoughts outside of our own.