So, between the AP practice tests and The Road poetry we did in class, I learned exactly one thing in English this week: I don't know anything about poetry.
I usually like English, and I love reading and grammar and books, so it's taken me a long time to figure out what my issue with poetry is. What I finally decided is that I'm too literal for it. I hate people who go in a super roundabout way of saying something.
Poets, especially the ones we read in English class, just use too much figurative language for me. Whenever I read it it just seems like they're vomiting up imagery and rhetorical strategies to try to come up with something deep. Like, sometimes it isn't even deep and they just sound like they're trying too hard.
I know this is just one person's opinion, and I'd just like to say that I really liked the poems we did in class! I know she'll never read this, but Alexis Hensley's was crazy awesome. They were definitely cool, but I know for sure that poetry will never be my thing. I'm happy to appreciate it and other people can read it all they want, but poetry and I will never end up friends.
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