My thoughts on poetry

Poetry is the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts, as defined by 'dictionary.com'. For me poems are another way to describe the meaning, or get to the point in a more complicated way. It is much harder for me to understand the meaning of poems, however it makes it easier to understand deeper emotions and feelings of the object. Poems use similes, metaphors, personifications, and more to get in depth and show the readers through imagery and specific syntax exactly what the author wants you to know. I don't like to sit at home and read poems because it takes up too much time and requires too much thinking unlike a book, which tells you what is going on and gets directly to the point. However I think the poetry unit is a great part of an AP literature class because it teaches students a different way of visualizing and understanding things. Reading books after books is great but that is necessary for everything and every class, but reading poems and writing poems is much different. It is harder and I think more students struggle with the process of understanding it as a whole. They understand the little descriptive parts, and little details more then the point of the writing. For me, it is more interesting to read books because you are understand what is going on, and it helps you get hooked on the story and makes you keep on reading, but for poems it is different. I don't like to read poems, but I guess most songs are considered poetry, which most people love. Songs have the same style as poems, especially rap. Most songs rhyme, follow certain patterns, give details, but are hard to find an actual meaning within it's words other then the theme or basic understanding. I think poems help everyone get another perspective on a the reading, and are come in different ways, including songs which most people love!