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 Wisława 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, not a blade of grass will bend”. That shows the total power of the writer. The last stanza also suggests that writing is somehow godlike, by saying “The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand”. Here she expresses, that with poetry one can create something eternal, while the real life is limited.

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The imagery supports this new approach to poetry by creating the picture of a doe drinking from a spring, which is one of the most classical and simplest contents of poetry, but yet is explored in a completely new way. The author tries to make clear that the poems actually only consists of letters, which seem meaningless alone, but together have the power to create vivid images in our heads. Evidence for this is given with the phrase: “...parts the boughs that have sprouted from the word “woods”.”

The idea that poetry gives the writer power is also reinforced ...

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