Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Discover How To Use Symbols In Poetry

By Dora Reed


Over the years, poetic symbolism has been explored by different poets from diverse backgrounds who have understood its essence as it helps in making a poem interesting by somehow hiding the message for audiences to comprehend. Symbols in poetry are like metaphors; in other words, this is whereby poets draw comparisons and somehow hides the message and the audience is expected to use their knowledge to get the message.

Poetry is a growing art that people are growing to like and appreciate more just like other forms of art and basically any artistic creation. Some even fuses music with poems and call it spoken word. Over the year this, form of art has grown popular to people from diverse location across the globe who are now practicing it.

Rhyming is known to be a basic element of poems; however, it is more than just rhyming as the rhymes must flows but also have a flowing story that focuses on a certain theme. Different poets usually have unique style of writing, presentation and at times both which is a good thing in terms of offering variety of pieces that are preferable to different audiences. The new era style of writing has been seen to have made changes on the initial forms of writing which was arguable necessary seeing the positive response this art is receiving nowadays.

Poets are known as communicators who use their skills of describing experiences, events, feelings and situations in words and making it live again for their audiences. In order to pass certain messages across one ought to recite the piece connecting to the emotions it describes; for instance, if its sad or joyful, the facial expression and body language should be able to show this.

Other than entertaining, poems tend to also inspire its audiences whereby one is motivated to keeping going even when it gets tough as there are others who have faced the worst and are still pushing on. This is what most of them are all about especially since most of them are reflections and real life experiences of the writer or the people around them which makes the words even more wisening.

Basically, this is also a form of expression where emotions are expressed and shared to others who may probably be facing the same challenges. For this, some are sad, others melancholic, while others are just joyful. It is for this reason that different pieces are liked by different audiences based on the preferences and tastes and more so their interpretation of these pieces.

Words are powerful and with them is a great realm of wisdom that is impactful to the people empowered by these expressions from different artists. The use of metaphors is a style that most writers have been seen to prefer whereby they compared subject matters with events and object just to creatively hide the message leaving it to the audience to crack the metaphors.

The poems of this era have over the past few years been receiving a great deal of fans and support from the youngsters. On the other hand, the internet has been a crucial platform in enhancing the sharing of these pieces from one writer to another and to their fans. This has enhanced the growth of this art and more and more people are inspired to pursue this art.




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