experience with poetry

    As much as I love poetry I don't have many experiences with it outside of school. The few memories I do have of poetry are from books. Not poetry books like Where The Sidewalk Ends (which I did not like by the way) but instead fantasy books like Eragon, The Night Angels trilogy, the Deltora Quest series, Septimus Heap and yes, Twilight. I regret to say that reading Twilight first introduced me to Robert Frost's poetry. I'm sure you know that the book begins with the poem "Fire and Ice". As disappointed as I was in the book I was equally and oppositely intrigued by "Fire and Ice". For being so short, the poem conveys and relates to so much. Each person who reads it comes up with a different meaning, as I learned from our discussion in class.
    The other books that I listed have a less popular kind of poetry in them, either the author, or more appropriately the character's, original work, or songs that the author creates. This form of poetry is also used in The Hunger Games. Katniss remembers her father singing a song about a dead man and his lover. The song is only written in the book though so I read it like poetry. Like any other poem the song uses metaphors, rhyme, poetic irony and lots of other figurative language that I cant think of.
    The point is that poetry is all around us and we are absorbing it even if we don't notice. All song lyrics are  poems. Expressing ideas, feelings, and situations often in an obscure or inferential way. Musicians often write their music to work through issues in their life, just like poets.
   I love music and with that comes a love of poetry. Poetry is the quickest and simplest was to express an idea in a way that people will understand no matter what the year. Poe and Shakespeare and Longfellow's work will still be speaking to people in five hundred years. Poetry speaks to peoples' most deep routed feelings, and that's why I love it.