Wednesday, November 30, 2011
When Oliver was talking about how a change in the established pattern manipulates the reader, I was recalling how I had felt as I read poetry and was able to switch my view of the situation in the poem. I really value having one or more poems that exemplify the topic that Oliver is teaching the reader about. This chapter makes the reader understand that structure in every poem, even the free verse ones, is key. Structure makes the reader see the different parts of their work and it allows for transitions. Oliver explains every time of rhyme very easily so that a reader with any kind of poetry background can fully understand rhyming, even the Spenserian Stanza, a lesser known kind of rhyming. This chapter helped me fully understand why each stanza was set up as it was for the sonnets and other types of poetry. I liked how Oliver explained the significance of patterns and showed how very different poems could get the same kind of point across. It would seem that even the most rebellious of poets would have to write in the same uniform pattern even if they believed that they were different. It is much like the idea that a writer composes something "completely different" than anything else in the world, when in fact all writing, whether prose or poetry, is intertwined within a large web. It is very easy to see how some people could get bored with this unanimous writing, but it also would help others who aren't as poetry savvy.
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