Writing About Poetry vs Writing Poetry

 

When it comes to the similarities between writing poetry and writing about poetry, one of them is that during both processes I was thinking about what the main characteristics were gonna be. For instance, some poems have greater emphasis on diction than imagery and while writing my own poem I was considering what I wanted to be the standout feature. Before writing about William Wordsworth's poem, "The World Is Too Much With Us; Late and Soon," I had to break it down and take a look at what it was that I took away the most from the poem and ultimately it was the symbolism he used in the poem with references to gods related to the Earth and nature. I think with my own poem, symbolism was also the standout feature. I didn't make efforts to rhyme or have any particular meter. I was careful with the words but ultimately I wanted symbols to be representative of the. As far as what I learned from this experience that I'll be able to use in my future, I've been an admirer of sonnets for a while now due to their structure and how the use of rhyme and the number of lines can guide readers while interpreting them, and therefore the primary takeaway is the strategy that can be used when analyzing to eventually write an explication. It consisted of finding the connection between lines that rhyme and the overarching ideas spread out in the quatrains and the sestet, as well as ultimately putting them all together to gain a thorough understanding of both the poet's intentions as well as how he went about conveying them.