Journal 42: Poetry

Poems usually partake of the nature of both speech and song, and that is usually rhythmical and metaphorical. A lot of people start studying poetry by looking at prosody. Although we can usually tell the difference between a prose and poem, there are some poems that look just like prose and vice versa. Sometimes I feel like poetry expresses more internal feeling in a implicit way with a lot of figurative usages, but that’s not a necessity in poetry nor is it something that can’t exist in other form of writing. A poem absolutely can do things as other forms of expressions; however, such poem usually needs to be added some other elements that are more closely related to poetry. In the past, the barrier between poetry and prose was clear and everyone followed the rule. However, the barrier, nowadays, becomes not so clear and a lot of work that have features of both claim to be either of them.

Although we might think that oh I don’t study poetry so I have no contact with it. That’s most likely to be wrong. In this world that’s full of ads. We can always poetic languages used in slogans, advertisements, and other stuff. Furthermore, some of our pop music also gets some poetic ideas and mixes them into the music.