Poetry: Artistic Writing that Evokes Emotions and Imagination

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A poem refers to artistic writing that enhances the readers' emotions and imagination.
This is done by careful selection of the words for their meaning, rhythm, and sound. Poems
range from simple to complex, depending on the intended audiences or the readers. For example,
poems meant for children are usually simple, whereas the poems intended for adults are complex
in nature. There are various ways in which a person can access poetry as an art, and this includes
reading a text, listening to a recorded voice, and viewing a live performance by the poet (Novak,
2012). The experience when using these methods varies from one to another in delivering the
message to the audience. For example, there is an effect that a person who reads the poem will
feel which not the same is for one who viewed the live performance. Poems are meant to express
emotions through words. Jamaal May and Patricia are well known poets who wrote "The sky
Now Black With Birds" and "34" respectively. The experience of reading the two points is
different from the experience of hearing them in performance videos.
"The sky, Now Black With Birds" is a poem that talks of the penalty of execution and the
forgiveness that accompanies the death penalty. There is a different experience when reading and
viewing the video performance of the poem. When Reading the poem, the poetry language is
directly and vividly represented (Janesick, 2016) .For example the rhyme scheme and repetition
can easily be identified in the text as opposed to the viewing of the video performance where the
same depends on the pronunciation abilities of the poet. Also, when reading the poem, I can
generate imagination and images surrounding the poem, unlike viewing the video performance
where I am restricted and cannot imagine. For example, when reading the line "to throw useless
punches into to the courthouse grass, while a woman near the forest of batons lay sprawled face
down in the lawn gripping a bible”. When reading the line the reader is able to make images on
the environment around the woman, which is not represented while viewing the video