![]() I feel like the entire point of writing poetry is to express yourself, and it's hard to do that when you're counting the syllables in every line. It was hard for me to stick to the formula, and I felt like it kind of stifled my creativity. July 25, - I had to write a sonnet in iambic pentameter when I was in high school also, but I found it really difficult. The only problem with sonnets is that since a lot of the ones we learned about in school were written in medieval times, sometimes the language was a bit hard to understand. This makes it much easier to write a paper analyzing a sonnet than a poem that has 12 verses and goes all over the place on subject matter. Also, most sonnets usually have a theme that's easy to discern. When I was in school, sonnets were my favorite kind of poem to read for class, mostly because they are fairly short. Writing in free verse is all over the place and less of a joy to read than poetry that follows a pattern. The challenge of writing within a structure such as the sonnet makes it all the more beautiful and flowing. Poetry is not expressing ourselves, but creating a painting with words. Poetry is about the world, and sometimes our part in it. ![]() If it were, poetry would be about ourselves, but usually it is not. ![]() The entire point of poetry is not to express yourself.
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