Poems are Hard to Read

Everyone thinks that poems are beyond imagination and contain all these extreme words that build all these different feelings inside of us. In the book “Poems are hard to Read” by William Meredith takes us to another point of view of poetry. I personally agree that books are hard to read because sometimes they seem to have all these big words and phrases that are hard to understand. In my English class I went through this conflict, I had to read all th7ese hard poems that I only understood a third of them. It wasn’t that after reading them more than ten times and with the help of the dictionary I got to understand most of it. According to Mr. Meredith, “…poems show us, by exhibiting its own process, how the energy is to be found, in the process of simile itself, to mix mode and times and feelings in ways that are disturbing and mysterious and, for our souls’ sakes, necessary.” That’s why we seek in poetry to retrieve and connect all the memories and feelings the poem take us. Also he explains how a metaphor is stretch further to determine how a poem is to be picked up and spanked into breath by the reader. He offers three roles that explain his reason for poetry: 1.Poet as dissident, 2. The poet as apologist, 3. The poet is the poet as solitary. Reading his book engages the reader to continue reading and finding the way William sees poetry as.Arny, Rose, J. Sons, Limited Limited, and William Meredith. Poems are hard to read. Univ of Michigan Pr, 1991. Print.