Hello, Hola, Ciao, bonjour! Fiona is back into the world of blogging again. In my last post I looked at why we turn to poetry and Elizabethan Poetry, if you want to go read it check it out 👉 here 👈. In class this week we looked at ‘Affairs of the heart’ ❤️ (Love and hate poetry). Poems such as, Sonnet 18, Sonnet 130 and excerpts from Romeo and Juliet, these were all by Shakespeare. We also looked at, ‘A Red Red Rose’ by Robert Burns and ‘She Walks in Beauty’ by Lord Byron. I would have to say that ‘She Walks in Beauty’ is one of my favourites, it is just so beautiful!(haha) 😍
Falling in and out of love is something a lot of people have experienced and people often turn to poetry during this time. I think this is because poetry is a great way to share these emotions and get them out onto paper. I don’t know about you but I find poetry helpful to share my emotions.
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A lot of poets these days share their poems in different or alternate ways and some stick to using the old styles and example of this is the sonnet. American poet Jane Hirshfield wrote this 14 lined poem that the relaxed or ‘ghost’ structure of a sonnet. I absolutely love it!!!!! What do you think? Let me know in the comments below.