Sunday, April 27, 2014

What I Think About Poetry

I think that poetry is like a jail cell in the sense that it is a very difficult and long process, but can be very rewarding when you get out. A Jail cell has walls, but a poem has specific parameters that you have to follow, whether you are writing in a haiku, or a free-verse poem with a specific rhyme scheme. This can be very frustrating, and sometimes you wish to lash out and give up. But if you do that, then you will end up having even more time in jail, or have to spend more time writing your poem.

                Another correlation between the two is work ethic. If you put in the hard work and spend lots of time on editing, you can almost make good poem even faster! But if you slack off, and spend little to no hours working then you will take longer, and have a bad poem. If you are bad in jail, then you will have to spend even more time in jail (not good). But if you put in community service hours, and be very good, then you will be released early. These are the main reasons why I think that poetry is a long and strenuous process; one that is very rewarding.

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