Every activity has a language; in this essay I will express the various types of languages that poetry preserves. The word “Poetry” comes an ancient Greek word that means to create. The language of poetry provides a meaning to a thought, an emotion, a desire or fantasy, through a more profound way of expression. Through a poem the reader creates an inner connection with the sound of the words, the position of each pause in the stanzas, and the profound thought that the writer has written the lines with. As expressed in an article titled “Poetry’s language,” by detecting the techniques poets use with language, it becomes easier to understand and talk about a poem1. Through reading a poem we can perceive visual images, and refine our sense
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Through reading you can feel embraced or connected by the words of expression within the poem. For instance, when reading “But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wing and upon the waters, until they found me,” I can relate these words as to when reminiscing of the moment that I met my partner. I loved the path that destiny placed in our lives, and our feet for bringing us together to the room where we …show more content…
Rhymes are usually used at the end of the lines in ballads, sonnets and rhyming couplets. However, in the present more free verses are utilized to give the poet more freedom to their thoughts. Additionally, strophes, stanzas, and verses usually structure poems. Rhetorical techniques are often utilized in poems as well; such as metaphors, similes, persona, allusion, hyperbole among others2.
Several poets seemed to may have lived multiple lives, due to the large variety of poems that they wrote; such as Neruda. He once said “ I was constantly fingering through his own experience in language, putting himself into words, questioning himself, discovering himself, creating himself” – and to me that’s what poetry does. Writing and reading poetry can inspire one to strive further in
Through reading you can feel embraced or connected by the words of expression within the poem. For instance, when reading “But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wing and upon the waters, until they found me,” I can relate these words as to when reminiscing of the moment that I met my partner. I loved the path that destiny placed in our lives, and our feet for bringing us together to the room where we …show more content…
Rhymes are usually used at the end of the lines in ballads, sonnets and rhyming couplets. However, in the present more free verses are utilized to give the poet more freedom to their thoughts. Additionally, strophes, stanzas, and verses usually structure poems. Rhetorical techniques are often utilized in poems as well; such as metaphors, similes, persona, allusion, hyperbole among others2.
Several poets seemed to may have lived multiple lives, due to the large variety of poems that they wrote; such as Neruda. He once said “ I was constantly fingering through his own experience in language, putting himself into words, questioning himself, discovering himself, creating himself” – and to me that’s what poetry does. Writing and reading poetry can inspire one to strive further in