Poetry

I like poetry. I honestly do.

I am saddened to see, when we do a poetry unit in English class, that so many people grumble about poems. I find them beautiful, and there is so much below the surface of most poems... more than one might get if he or she were to just skim over the poem.

Evidently, I also write poetry, but I believe that my love of it is not correlated specifically with the fact that I write. I mean, I'm sure that my adoration is in some way correlated with my actual writing, but I've loved reading since before I could write, and I suppose it is my ability to write that has strengthened my love and appreciation for literature and writing of all sorts.

This is not to say I love every poem in the world. I don't. But I like poetry as a more general category, as a concept that one can analyze and explore.