Poetry, more than love.

Last week, we changed   the stories in prose,  to stories in verse; we changed the  defined characters, to   the undefined, we changed  the  narrator  talking to somebody ,  to a narrator talking to anybody. We  changed  the long stories, to short ones; We changed   the   dialogs,  to monologues,  we decided to  change   the  specific  themes  to  the non-specific and  hidden   themes. We did all these, because  we are goint to read   some poems,  the  author  in this case will be John Donne. 

Before we can read anything about poetry, we must know  what  it is, and according to Octavio Paz,   it  could be  anything,  from   just knowledge  to  something that can change  the world, also  it could be   your own life, someone elese's live, and so on , it could be  anything.  And according to me,  poetry is a way in which we can  change the way we express and  it  has no reason to be, it  just appears and  sometimes  it is good  or it   is bad, but  we   just  use it  to  "take  out" everything   from  inside us, and  just  leave it there, so that   anybody that reads  it  gives it a meaning. 

While  we were  discussing  about  what is  poetry for  us,   I got into my own  conclusion,  and  it    has not change a lot since we started, because  I thought that poetry is a way in which  we   can express anything with a certain format (verses)  and it uses retoric and   the other   figure of speech,  which  we know  but we do not know what it's name,  but what I've leared is that   it  can really   mean something to   anybody that reads it, and there are no special meanings  for the  position  of the words, sometimes it just   happens  like that and  the author  is ok with it because it means what  he or she wanted. 

In conclusion, poetry can be anything,  and the author decides   the words,  but the reader decides the meaning  of it, and what it will mean in his life.  Also  even thought that we  say that  something is red,  somebody else  can see it  blue,  and  everyting  in poetry will be  managed  by  the reader and   what  he knows and thinks.