Poetry Is The Art Of Uniting Pleasure With Truth

“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.” People write poems everyday everywhere and they write it about multiple things. To poets there lines they put in have special meaning to them. They might be trying to get a message out that they failed to see. They write about their experience and their mistakes so they write them and feel more acceptive of it. Everyone can write poems but only a few have the great opportunity to write amazing poems. In this particular essay I will be writing about a certain kind of poetry. There is a type of poem that is called a sonnet. In order for a poem tone a sonnet it has to have certain things. Their are rules to have a sonnet and for it to count as one. A sonnet is a 14 line poem that has a certain …show more content…
That is the reason why the sonnet is a 14 line poem so that we could fit all of the rhyme into it. Sonnets are everywhere in literature classes and people learn about them everyday. Having the 14 lines helps out lines the poem. When you are working with the rhyme style with this is that the same letter has to end with a rhyme word. So you have to plan your sentences out that when you come to the next letter you 'll know what you need to end with. That 's the main part in my eyes and the hardest part in doing sonnets. Once you get your rhyme scheme in your mind then you 'll have it easier to write a …show more content…
These poems are time consuming but not to William Shakespeare. That guy wrote so much sonnets it is crazy. It makes me wonder about how much time he actually did writing these things. . I mean obviously he is good because he wrote so many but how long did it take him to write these things. It took me a week to write one and mine is not even good. Shakespeare wrote over 100 of these things and all of them are considered good. Maybe because he did it so much he became a master at it. He could do it without even thinking much about it. There are a lot of things that make a sonnet but that only for it to be a sonnet. My sonnet means a lot to me because I could reflect on mine and know what was on my mind at that time. I know what I was thinking and feeling about. So even if other people would not like mine that doesn’t make my sonnet bad. To me my sonnet is one of the best ever because the meaning I put into it. Meaning is a special part about a sonnet and to know that William Shakespeare wrote so many of these he must of had a lot of