Monday, December 7, 2009

Poem

Chapter 15 of the poetry book talked about how poems could be simple or complicated, as in one can take it literally or there can be hidden messages to it. I’ve noticed that I enjoy more of the literal poems. Maybe this is because I’m not really a creative type but rather a logical type of person. Like “This is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams is very simple, very straight forward and easy to interpret. I enjoy this type of poem, I guess also because of my culture. The most famous type of Japanese poetry is Haiku. Of course not all haiku is literal but most are. The point of haiku is to describe the season and that to me is much easier to understand and I can feel the connection with the author.

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