Entry 43, Elements of Poetry

  Poetry and normal everyday writing is very different. Different in the style and structure as well as many times the word choices of the two. Poetry has been very popular for a very long time and they have been passed down from generations to generations. After so many poems, I believe that not all of them have to have the exact pattern. Many of them decides to follow a certain rhythm to keep the whole poem organized. Many chooses to use rhyming in their word choices so that they will have better sounding sentences. The structure of the poem is being written in stanzas, which are short paragraphs. Also, the poem sentences are often cut off in the middle to the next line and poems aren't read with the sounds of it, they are read for the punctuation and the rhythm of it. I believe that the word choices are essential to creating a good poem. A good poem expresses sensory details through the five senses and so the author has a goal of letting the audience process the words they are given, into painted, vivid, pictures of what the author is attempting to say. Poems are different than short stories, take a comparison at the short story of Harrison Beurgeron and comparing to Robert Frost's famous poem, "The Road Not Taken". The two poems both tell stories but one uses strong word choices to help the audience visualize the poem.