Luckily, in the next poem I read the author began describing her views of poetry as well. "Ars Poetica", by MacLeish, described poetry as "palpable" (MacLeish 138) meaning something real or something you can feel. These feelings are what should draw you into the poem to where you can relate it to yourself. In the next line it describes a poem as a "globed fruit" (MacLeish 138). This meant to me that you must look with the ball that the author has created and not drift outside of that. Throughout the rest of the poem she describes how a poem should not be over analyzed but more experienced. Experiencing a description was something I never thought about when reading poetry in the past and maybe that is why it was so hard for me to get into the depth that a poem has. If everyone is suppose to experience a poem then the answer to the question what is poetry should have to me added to it. What is poetry to me? .
So here I sit with two opinions on poetry that helped me lose my fear. Now I must establish what poetry is to me and how to better grab all possible experiences out of the poem. If the concept of poetry is as deep as the two previous authors make it, then why not get the most out of your readings. Now that I have this new found understanding of poetry I continued reading in order to get the final answer, what can I possibly get out of poetry?.
Poetry is a form of art that is used to put the author's emotions and stories on paper. The author uses this art form to get his or her points across and allows the reader to feel what the author is feeling. Whether these feelings are sadness, happiness, anger, or loneliness the goal is for you to feel what emotion they are trying to convey. The next two works that we were to read began to describe the deep concept of love. .
In the poem "Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat Nor Drink", Millay describes how she feels love affects people's lives.
