The Language of the Soul

Poetry is the most complicated genre of literature to comprehend. You never know what the author has intended the poem to represent. The literal meaning or is there a deeper to it. You can get caught thinking about a poem a simple as a Haiku, that's only three lines long, but one-million lines of interpretation. That's no hyperbole. To me, poems are the perfect tool to express the unexplainable. Poems let you write everything you want to write about. Poems are stress relievers. Poems are not as strict or as technical as essays, stories etc. They are free-flowing, easy-listening. One stereotype that I usually hear about poems is that they have to rhyme. That isn't entirely true. Some of the best poems do not rhyme such as "Fog", by Carl Sandburg. That is one of the reasons I truly enjoy poems, reading and writing. Poems activate my cerebrum, the thinking and creative part of my brain. At the same time, I have been taught so many things about poetry. Poetry taught me that creativity is more important as technicality, structure etc. Even though those things are important as well. Poetry isn't supposed to be straight forward. What is the point of poetry if it has no message, deeper meaning. Poetry has given me a different side of literature, something that I was not taught in elementary, and I enjoy it. Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty and words - Edgar Allan Poe. This quote best represents my emotion towards poetry :)