Poetry

I do not really mind poetry but I don’t like it either. Poetry really is hard for me to understand and confuses me.  I think it is hard for me to understand because it is not in modern day language; it is hard to pick out the parts to make out what the poem is talking about. I learned some poetry throughout middle school and didn't learn anymore with it until last year. Shakespeare was the hardest to understand, I usually broke it down into modern day terms by looking up the definitions of words I did not understand in the poem to put it into simple terms to understand. I also really hated Romeo and Juliet, I remember how freshman year, my whole English class had to read it together and the teacher by no means helped us understand it. It was so long and took over 3 weeks to read in class. I was so frustrated with it every day, nothing I read was even understandable. I hated poetry after that until my 11^th grade year when my English teacher started teaching us how to break it down and showed us how to turn it into modern day language then I really started to enjoy reading it. I don’t mind Poetry that is easy to understand and that’s written into simple terms. I love Nikki Giovanni’s poems; she puts deep thoughts and emotions in her poems and bases them upon how reality in life really is. She doesn't put any assonance or alliteration into her poems. My favorite poem from her was called balances.

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