Poetry

According to the definition at Dictionary.com poetry is –noun

the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, forexciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative,

or elevated thoughts.

To me poetry is a piece of writing that brings up a certain emotion in a person while the read the piece. Through poetry you can convey so many things sadness, happiness, anger, and so much more can be not only read and seen through poetry but felt through poetry.

A poetic device is a feature that can help a writer when writing poetry and can help their writing be stronger. Some of these include alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, repetition, long and short vowel sounds, consonants, consonance etc. I think the most interesting poetic device is probably onomatopoeia because I never really though there would be a word for sounds that truly do sound like the object that is making the sound, eg. CRACK! BOOM!, etc.

Below is a poem that I wrote a while and analyzed pointing out the different poetic devices that were in the poem:

Dies Young[ml1] [ml2]

If she dies young[ml3]

She’ll do it singing a love song[ml4]

Hopeless girl who never knew

What the price of risky love could really do

If she dies young

It’ll be cause to her, mama was always wrong

Telling her God[ml5] just wanted her to be strong

If she dies young [ml6]

Tell her that I [ml7] miss the way she sung

Miss the time that [ml8] from the tree branch we hung

Now she died young

To the bitter sweetness [ml9] of her love song

She was a girl who figured out

A little too late what risky love was all about

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[ml1]Stanza

[ml2]The mood is sad and almost mourning.

[ml3]Repetition

[ml4]Euphony

[ml5]Allusion

[ml6]Rhyme

[ml7]Point of view: 1st

[ml8]Alliteration

[ml9]Oxymoron

The whole idea of this poem was trying to find that underlying meaning of the words, and when writing this poem the underlying meaning I was thinking of how the poem could talk about being physically abusive.