Just got done reading the essay assigned for class this Thursday; it was very interesting. It gave me a totally different perspective about poems. I'm not really that into poetry I guess you can say. I never really read it in high school, so i guess it kind of carried over to college. Its not that I don't respect the writer, its that most of the time I don't understand what the author is trying to communicate.

Well this essay helped me understand a little more. I found out that the reason most poems are so hard to understand at first is because they aren't just meant to be read one time. Authors of these poems make them like that so that the reader has to do some work too. He compared it to rock climbing; you can't just expect to climb a mountain, you actually have to do some work. And the same goes for reading and understanding poems. The author of the essay also compared poem writing to jazz music, and how some authors format their poems to flow like the music of a saxophone.

I think if I was to take anything away from this essay, it would be to give poetry a better chance. Maybe re-read it like the essay says and then read it aloud to yourself. I'm understanding more and more that in today's world, the more areas you are experienced in the better off you are in society. This essay opened my eyes a lot to why authors of poems write what the write, or how they write. It even mentioned that even the authors admit the poetry is tough to understand. Make me feel a heck of a lot better.