Reader Response #6 Find a Poet

The poet I found was Edgar Allen Poe. I like the poetry I read on this site because it is depressing and he relates to the common person. The reason I like his depressing poems is because I like a lot of depressing things, such as music. Another reason I like his poems is because they relate to most people even though they are depressing. One thing I dislike about the poems is that some of them are misleading such as the poem “Conflict”. Some of his poems also contradict each other. This makes it hard - unless you know the dates and his background – to actually know what he is trying to tell you in his poems.

The poems connect to my life because in the music I listen to it is similar to the main idea to Edgar Poe’s poems. In some of the poems he wrote he talks about how love is a wonderful thing but it can hurt more then it is worth. Some of the songs I listen to try to say that love is hurtful and not worth it unless you can take the hurt. The poems may not directly relate to me but it relates to the music that I listen to.

My definition of poetry is the poet writes what they feel and believe in to express their feelings. I think this because a lot of poets write what they think about the most and what they think is the most important thing in their life.