Poetry Response Essay

THE PERFECT CHOICE

Robert Frost once said, “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” This is true and is the precise reason as to why poetry form is more effective than a novel form at social commentary, because it is more captivating, gets the message across better than a novel, and it can change and affect a reader’s perspective/opinion.

Firstly, the purpose of social commentary is to comment on something happening in society that you feel strongly about; by doing so, you are attempting to bring attention to or change a reader’s view on that subject. Therefore, a poem will be the perfect choice. This is because, a poem makes the reader decipher the meaning which engages the reader and allows him/her to see things from a different perspective. For instance, in my poem, “The Most Powerful Weapon” by Azmat and I, we wrote, “stop anger and sadness from becoming a new discovery (VII line 35)”, however, we

One way poems do this, is because poems have a rhyme scheme which entertains the reader by allowing the poem to flow smoothly. For example in my poem I wrote “made me feel like I had a PHD/IN FREAKNESS/as they turned my difference from a uniqueness/into a weakness (VIII line 42-45)”. This use of rhyming allows the poem to flow which adds entertainment to the poem. Moreover, a poem is implied and as a result gives the reader a sense of a game/puzzle because the reader needs to analyze and decipher the meaning thus engaging the reader. For example, in my poem I wrote, “turned me into a beacon that reads entertainer (V line 28) ”. This makes the reader think of the possible meaning (since I do not literally mean “beacon”) and turns the poem into a game of deciphering, which in-turn entertains the reader. As you can see poetry is a lot more effective at captivating and entertaining to a