What is poetry? A variety of answers are likely to emerge when you ask this question. According to Merriam Webster, poetry is defined as, “Metrical writing; writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm.” An author can have a set purpose of writing something, but everyone interprets readings differently. Any work, in which the speaker is telling a story that evokes emotion from its reader; the writing does not have to any set, specific emotion that the reader is supposed to feel, a change in wording or style of writing can cause someone to look at that section different; that is what poetry is to me. I don’t mean emotion in a literal sense either, by emotion, I mean having an entirely different way of looking at something.
When I hear the name Frederick Douglass, I am expecting to experience nothing but a stern, straight to the point piece. Though I enjoyed reading, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” in the beginning, I thought to myself, “Oh boy, not another sad account of what once was.” However, in life you must take chances …show more content…
The speaker continues with the questions, while using descriptive words to further reflect his case. “Who so stolid and selfish, that would not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs of a nation’s jubilee, when the chains of servitude had been torn from his limbs? I am not that man. In a case like that, the dumb might eloquently speak, and the lame man leap as an hart.” Those lines stood out the most to me. The vivid imagery took me away and made me feel hooked on to what was being said. There is always a need for imagery in poetry, because without it, the reader would not quite understand what is going on. Imagery allows the reader to feel like he or she is actually present in that time and ultimately causes emotions to
When I hear the name Frederick Douglass, I am expecting to experience nothing but a stern, straight to the point piece. Though I enjoyed reading, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” in the beginning, I thought to myself, “Oh boy, not another sad account of what once was.” However, in life you must take chances …show more content…
The speaker continues with the questions, while using descriptive words to further reflect his case. “Who so stolid and selfish, that would not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs of a nation’s jubilee, when the chains of servitude had been torn from his limbs? I am not that man. In a case like that, the dumb might eloquently speak, and the lame man leap as an hart.” Those lines stood out the most to me. The vivid imagery took me away and made me feel hooked on to what was being said. There is always a need for imagery in poetry, because without it, the reader would not quite understand what is going on. Imagery allows the reader to feel like he or she is actually present in that time and ultimately causes emotions to