Poetry Reflection

Poetry Reflection

Poetry doesn’t really have all that much of an effect in my life. From the start of the entire unit, I have already known that poetry may inspire you and may exactly change how you and I view the world, it may even give you and I another perspective of things. But I already seem to think about those things on my own. I don’t really need to hear another person telling me that other people have died in the past and that I should feel sorry for them. I already have those feelings. 

Poetry doesn’t change me all that much in the emotional aspect, but my way of writing and sharing my feelings have changed. I have learned how to share things through my emotions, I’ve learned how to adapt and change so I’m able to fit my own different way of writing into different poetic devices. I’m able to do things I haven’t been able to do before.

I would think that Poetry can belong to everyone. You are able to make poetry yours by creating your own poetry. Whatever you create would be yours, correct? Whether you give it away afterwards, it would still be yours for that amount of time that you do have it. If you have your name on that piece of poetry, it would be yours to keep, well, forever. So by writing your own poetry, it would belong to you.

I think that Poetry is created by your experiences and memories. You only get inspired through your experiences. If you’re writing about something, and you don’t really know what you’re writing about, you would only be able to write, like what, a sentence? You need something that you would be able to connect to, something that you are passionate about to create a good piece of poetry. You must share your thoughts and emotions of the topic to create a good piece of poetry. Your experiences and memories are your thoughts and emotion, if you don’t have those things, you can’t call that poetry.