Paper 2

Poetry by definition is the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts, but I don’t see any of that. The only time I read poetry is when I have to. So to do this assignment I forced myself to pick two poems that I liked and easily picked two I disliked. I Chose “At the end “and “Eclipse” as the poems I liked, and “This is just to say “and” Decade” as the poems I disliked.
I liked “At the end “and “Eclipse” because they actually made sense. “At the end” is a poem written by Ed Meek. This poem is about someone with an old man that is dying in his/her presence. I like how Ed Meek describes how the man is slipping into his death. He uses a river as a symbol to show the transformation from life to death, and the man actually being in the water is his death. As the man is dying he is smiling because death is not something he fears so he plunges in. The Eclipse is a poem written by Richard Eberhart. I liked this poem because I don’t think it has anything to do with a real eclipse. I think the poem is really about hope. The eclipse is hope and the darkness he refers to is everything around us that troubles us. When the man is surrounded by all the darkness, and he looks up in the sky and sees the light he realizes even being in the darkness he knows there is something good out there.
The two poems that I chose that I disliked were “This is just to say “and” Decade”. I disliked these two poems because they didn’t make much sense at all. I understand that some poems that have hidden messages but after reading them several times I still don’t see them. After reading these poems I have come to the conclusion that many poems are pointless. These poems are just words, words with no real meaning.
In conclusion I don’t like poems. I feel if you have something to say you should just say it. The author shouldn’t write his/her message in code. If the author doesn’t make their message clear to the reader, what was the point in writing it?