Reflection #5 Poetry

In the class room we started to talk about POETRY, a very profound and behond the imagination matter. When I talk about poetry I take it very seroiusly because as a student in the classroom said: "Poetry is what the heart would say if it could write", I agree with that beautiful thought...Poetry does not have to rhyme, there are certain rules in poetry, but rhyme is not a requierment. As the text says: "An image is language that addresses the senses", I think that if the author of a poem can achieve the goal of the reader, while he is reading, can view in his mind the images that the poem is trying to present, he will appeal to the senses of the reader. As there are poems that appeal to our senses, there are too those that are plain and dont describe to much, like "Poem" by William Carlos Williams. I read this short poem and I founded it very simple, so simple that a five year old that knows English could write it, but is simply the style of some writers. But on the contrary in the poem "Calvary Crosssing a Ford" of Walt Whitman he seems to have no problem describing every little detail so we can create the images in our minds. There are also other poems that while creating in our minds a vivid picture of what we read, they try to emphatize the movements of the actions they are making, for example: "Windsurfing" by David Solway, a beautiful poem that only makes you want to go to that place of what the author is talking about and go windsurfing on vacations, just by reading it, it feels good all ready. "Root Cellar" is a poem written by Theodore Roethke, in my opinion is very literally nasty, is describing an old cellar how are the rotten things in there...In conclusion we could say that every poet has his own style of writting that should be respected, that is what makes them unique...