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  • Essay / Understanding and interpreting poetry - 1682

    What is poetry? And what makes it different? According to Webster's Dictionary, poetry is described as the art of writing stories, poems, and thoughts in verse. Poetry has many different parts that make it different; for example rhyme, rhythm and format/stanzas. In poems, feelings and ideas are expressed with fewer words and the techniques used in poems are also different. Another thing that makes the poems a little different is that their meaning is a little difficult to understand and the language seems to be manipulated; in other words, a poet can create his own language. The poems in "When We Part", "It's a Pity We Were Such a Good Invention" and "Modern Love" all have the same theme of broken hearts, but their use of vocabulary, emotions and thoughts is very different. allowing the poems to be unique. Therefore, the poems can be performed for anyone, without direct reference to whom. For example, reading a poem with a known theme and then having the ability to read what the author wrote about that theme makes the poem interesting, because their vocabulary choices and thoughts are all different. Firstly, in the first line of stanza 1 of “When we both part” readers are informed of the separation of two lovers as it says “When we both part” (line 1). The separation of these two lovers is accompanied by “silence and tears” (line 2); in other words, feelings of sadness. Upon separation, the speaker's ex-lover, whom he loved so much with their affection, became cold and pale, a change representing the grief that occurs at that time as well as later. It also involves an emotional separation which becomes more pronounced from the start of their separation. For the speaker says: "Your cheek has become pale... middle of paper... more than a real rhythm." The use of abrupt phrases and fragments gives the poem a generally choppy and uniform sound, which is another way of allowing readers to read the fast-paced internal dialogue. The poem relies heavily on the associative meaning of a word in addition to the literal meaning; For example, words such as dismantled mean negative, robotic and the word; invention meaning to feel artificial, new; and pity meaning how the speaker has given up. So the tone of this poem is helplessness, tragedy, anger, hurt, sorrow, sadness, etc. Finally, even if these poems have the same theme, what differentiates them from each other is the choice of words they use, the feelings they introduce. , as well as the way they present them. All poems have a unique way of allowing readers to see how they express themselves or what they write about..