Week 1: Definition of Poem

My definition of poetry really kind of varies. I think poetry is another way of expressing your feelings that you have towards things, and people. It’s a good way to show your emotions, in a mysterious kind of way. Poetry never really gives you everything like a story does, it just kind of drops you in the setting, and you have to make up what you think happened before, or after. It’s a good way to let things out and show how you really feel, and you don’t have to give a whole entire story as to why. You tell how you feel, and that’s it. You can tell your emotion in a poem, and you don’t even need a reason as to why you’re feeling it. In poems you can show how you feel towards a person, thing, or even just how you're feeling in general. It doesn't even have to be something you feel. It could be something you see that someone else feels. Poetry is a way for the person who's reading it to feel exactly how you feel. You see in the eyes of another person when you read poems. Poems are something that can start out as just a few lines jolted out, and end up becoming a big masterpiece that everyone recites. It just all really depends on what person you're asking what a poem means to. But that is what I get out of it.