{"id":2060,"date":"2015-03-12T00:26:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T00:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web02.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters2\/archives\/2060"},"modified":"2015-05-24T07:13:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T07:13:04","slug":"poetry-needs-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/2060","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Needs Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"

By judging the topic, I guess most of you will know the topic of today\u2019s entry: Poetry. Personally, I think poetry is the most beautiful text-type. It\u2019s like painting a picture with words. As a big fan of literature, poetry is my favourite among all the text-types.<\/span><\/p>\n

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So if you\u2019ve been following my blog, you\u2019ll notice that I do write poems once in a while. Of course, I can\u2019t guarantee that they\u2019re as good as the ones from the one and the only one Ellen Hopkins. (FYI, she\u2019s the writer of a famous poem \u201cHaven\u201d.) But one thing I\u2019m very sure about is that it\u2019s poems that can help us express our feelings and thoughts. You might say I can also express my feelings and thoughts through music and songs, and even drawings. Well partly, you\u2019re right. But poetry is a different story. Take drawings as an example. You use different colours to express your emotions. If you\u2019re happy and jolly, you\u2019ll draw something pleasant and use bright colours. But you can\u2019t really fully and exactly tell what you\u2019re feeling and thinking in your brain. Through words and sentences, you\u2019re telling the world how you feel OUT LOUD! You can even use different techniques to make it more appealing and vivid. It\u2019s like a piece of splendid art work but in words.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Up to this point, poetry, kind of sounds like a really complicated thing. To some of us, it is. That\u2019s why it\u2019s less popular among students. What a tragedy. Some of the poems are quite difficult to understand. You may not be able to see through the words and get what the poet is trying to say. It\u2019s probably because you\u2019ve never experienced or gone through the poet\u2019s situation. You feel completely clueless to the poem. Just like a positive thinking and happy person can hardly understand the poem of a depressed, suicidal writer.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Another reason could be that most of the poems you read are very old. The use of wordings and the settings are completely different from the modern ones. It\u2019s just like the old people trying to understand us teens\u2019 kind of language like LOL, ROFL. Or the other way round. These all stop students from trying to explore more about poetry, not to mention trying to arouse their interest in writing their own poem. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The school could play an important role in helping students overcome their fear of poems; moreover, promoting poetry. The first thing is: start the subject of English Literature. In this subject, students would encounter numerous poems. They would learn how to read poems and decode the meaning hidden underneath. Once they know how to understand poems, they\u2019ll be interested in poetry. You would be impressed by how the powerful poetic devices, like the manipulation of the rhyme and meter and the use of metaphorical language, can reveal vividly to you the life and the thoughts of the poets and their world. For those of you who couldn\u2019t study literature or poetry because the school doesn\u2019t offer this class. I FEEL YOU! You and I both know how it feels not having a group of friends with the same love for poetry.<\/span><\/p>\n

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For something less academic, the school can organize poetry reading competitions. Let students experience more about poetry through reading them and performing them. Displaying poems in the campus could be a good idea too. But the choice of poems is very important. The modern poems are more preferable than the ones from the ancient past. Give students more opportunities to be exposed to poetry. It surely helps them improve their language and become more artistic.<\/span><\/p>\n

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That\u2019s pretty much what I want to say about poetry. Thanks for bearing with my ranting. Apologies for my followers who aren\u2019t a fan of poetry. But I hope my introduction can arouse your interest in exploring a bit more about this beautiful way of expression through language. Feel free to leave a comment and let more know what you think about poetry. Laters!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By judging the topic, I guess most of you will know the topic of today\u2019s entry: Poetry. Personally, I think poetry is the most beautiful text-type. It\u2019s like painting a picture with words. As a big fan of literature, poetry is my favourite among all the text-types.<\/span><\/p>

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