My Qualms With Poetry Argon
"Poets invite us to change speeds while reading - to slow down and linger over some words and sounds and to pass rapidly over others" (185).
Edgar V. Roberts, Writing About Literature
Here's another reason to enjoy poetry. I mean, I've always liked to read it, but it was mostly for a "oh wow that's some pretty stuff" kind of reason. It's not hard to understand what's happening in poetry, but sometimes it's difficult to analyze, especially when you have to think about the mechanics of it. Anyways, as I said in my presentation on Friday, I'm beginning to enjoy poetry even more than I have in the past the more I learn about it.
The above quote makes me relate poetry to science. In a previous blog, I described math as a sort of artistic science; now, I'm going to call poetry a scientific art. Some poets might just write what comes to mind without thinking about it; I don't really know since I'm not a poet. However, I know some poets, especially the ones we study for literary value, must focus on the prosody in their writings. There has to be a specific purpose to the choices they make because they bring something to the poem to amplify the theme, or the emotions of the speaker.
This specific technique seems so scientific to me. It involves planning, research, and experimentation in order to make it successful. Since I love science, I love this aspect of poetry and I wish I would have really thought about it sooner than now.
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Edgar V. Roberts, Writing About Literature
Here's another reason to enjoy poetry. I mean, I've always liked to read it, but it was mostly for a "oh wow that's some pretty stuff" kind of reason. It's not hard to understand what's happening in poetry, but sometimes it's difficult to analyze, especially when you have to think about the mechanics of it. Anyways, as I said in my presentation on Friday, I'm beginning to enjoy poetry even more than I have in the past the more I learn about it.
The above quote makes me relate poetry to science. In a previous blog, I described math as a sort of artistic science; now, I'm going to call poetry a scientific art. Some poets might just write what comes to mind without thinking about it; I don't really know since I'm not a poet. However, I know some poets, especially the ones we study for literary value, must focus on the prosody in their writings. There has to be a specific purpose to the choices they make because they bring something to the poem to amplify the theme, or the emotions of the speaker.
This specific technique seems so scientific to me. It involves planning, research, and experimentation in order to make it successful. Since I love science, I love this aspect of poetry and I wish I would have really thought about it sooner than now.
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