Like art, literature can be expressed in many ways, and poetry is just one of the many ways. But like with any other activity, doing it too much makes it eventually become redundant and boring, but like with sports or anything else, I've realized that to become good at something you need practice until your somewhat proficient, and I'm not even close to that.
It has somewhat become satisfying reading poetry, like those brain riddles/ puzzles where you have to guess x, and when you finally get the correct answer after thinking about trying multiple idea it becomes somewhat enjoyable, and this goes for poetry. The ability to hide messages through simple diction that dictates connotation, which therefore creates emotion, is simply amazing and something I wish to do.
A simple color or item can be expanded upon so much that it somehow takes up two pages or has a colored farm item (you know) dictate so much meaning with less than 10 lines is just unfathomable to me, but what's even harder to imagine is being able to decipher this.
It's got to the point that decipher poems is impossible, either the author has written it so beautifully that you can't do anything but just sit there in awe that taking the words of the English language and putting it together in this pattern is possible or the fact that any idea I generate is delusional or crazy to imagine that the author intended it like that.
I don't know... maybe I'm not cut out for this poetry life, but it's certainly made me view it differently, that instead of using it as an easy way out, I should value it for what it actually is...
( I apologize to my elementary school teachers; maybe I should've actually tried instead of using poems as an easy read, or at least tried to read them.)
(Mrs. Knudson, when she hears someone say that they don't get it. "WHAT!!!" I'm joking, I'm joking... sorry... not)
