Poets rethink everything anew

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"Poets rethink everything anew"

From your reading of poetry show how two or three of the poems may have given you a new or different sense of poetry or of human experience, and comment on how these effects were achieved in the poetry. Refer to poems by at least two different poets.

There are lots of poems which may create a new or different sense of poetry or of human experience. Some very good examples for this are Wislawa Szymborska´s "The Joy of Writing", in which she explores the process of creating poetry, and "Hitler`s First Photograph", which is about the dictator as a child, as well as Carol Ann Duffy´s "Valentine", that compares love with an onion.

In "The Joy of Writing" the special feature, which gives us a new sensation of poetry, is that Szymborska does not only write a "normal" poem, but also about how she writes it and what abilities and power this gives her. She suggests, that the author can decide alone, what happens in a poem. For incidence she says: "the twinkling of an eye will take as long as I say" or "without my blessing, not a leaf will fall,