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5 Reasons To Like Poetry

A poem presents magic

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5 Reasons To Like Poetry
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Poetry provides magic for an individual to experience the chance to read. However, society tends to neglect poetry as tedious or the time for nap in English class. Students either experience a bad introduction to poetry or ignore the notion to take an interest in the material. Here are five reasons to feel thankful for poetry.

1. It's not a long drawn out essay.

Generally, poetry appears as one or a couple of stanzas. Experience happiness that the teacher didn't assign a rotten 250 page book to read or a dreadful T.S. Elliot essay to read that particular week. High school literature teachers like to require students to write a poem as well. Students should feel thankful that they need to write a minimum of one stanza rather than a five page paper.

2. Free Verse.

Rhyme schemes are the common perspective of what people think about when poetry enters the mind. Yet, a poem can also surface without a single rhyme in the entire work. The free verse opens the potential that a poem can be written in any manner and maintain the notion that a narrative occurred, nonetheless.

3. Break the rules.

Remember when the high school English teacher said a sentence must comprise of a verb, subject, and a predicate to generate a sentence? Poetry throws that idea out the window. A poet determines how each line appears to the reader without the traditional rules of grammar.

4. Symbolism.

Metaphors, similes, personification, among other flashy forms of figurative language manifest inside a poem. Words take on a new meaning or develop a different interpretation which a reader might lack familiarity. That is acceptable. The poet devised a fun challenge for the reader to dig and discover what the writer is talking about.

5. Creativity.

The writer explored an alternate method in their path to portray an awesome artistic talent. A poet lacks the necessity to feel confined in the style of fiction or to perform the necessary research to write a non-fiction book. The individual designs their own real or fake world inside a poem.

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