10/20/2014

Understanding Simple And Complicated Symbols In Poetry

By Patty Goff


Students of literature always find their selves complaining about their assignments as most of their professors require them to submit a reaction paper about the assigned poems, short stories, plays, and novels that are all hard to understand. Reading them over and over again will not help unless you have a background of symbolisms to unlock the message in between the lines.

Emotions, opinions, feelings, and the perception or views of the author are just the things that literature always represents. Readers are obliged to unlock the mystery and link the adjectives, nouns, and verbs altogether. There is a secret message hidden in every phrase and stanza and when you finally unlocked it, you will be amazed on how great the author in using symbols in poetry with mystery with inexplicable truth and lies.

Every poem or story has its own theme to talk about. It may highlight about love, grief, success, defeat, death, war, and silence. They associate pain and suffering to dark, cold, and uncertain events. Writers use of memories and describe the events in creative selection of words that could really stimulate your imagination.

Symbolism is a method used by creative writers of poems and novels to deliver deep and dark meanings of short phrases instead of writing those literal boring words. Apart from their own experiences and memories, these writers prefer to describe the people they have observed and the places that they have visited.

There are books that you can buy in bookstores wherein you can study the meanings of symbolisms used by writers. You can also access websites over the internet which is dedicated to love of literature. If you can observe, the words allow you to imagine what the writer is thinking. But this is done indirectly outlined and this is really a challenge to most students.

If you wonder why writers love to insert symbolic words well it is easy. Writers desire to create visible images inside the minds of their readers and take out their emotions out of their system. It is very unique and effective to draw out unexpected reactions from different people. It is some kind of another form of artistry but in words.

Learning to write poems is possible if you know to apply the basics of symbolism. The fewer words you use, the better your work. Using several lines of descriptive words is boring and very predictable. Never rush in writing the content. Always stick to your motive and feelings. Find the time where you are inspired to write and find a place where you can be comfortable writing.

Great written poems usually deliver varied interpretations by different readers. Sometimes, the words appear to be much obscured, opposite, and disorganized making it difficult to fathom. Due to the arrangement of lines, it gives a sense of magic every end of the lines. Keep reading and appreciate the good outcome of constant practice in writing.

Actually there are literature classes that teach students and young writers who wish to learn excellent writing skills. The teacher will guide the student to magnify the words' meanings. Learning symbolism in crash courses is progressive. The higher you go, the more difficult the readings are.




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