Saturday, October 18, 2014

Understanding Good Literature And 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.

Literature represents the emotions, feelings, perception or views, and opinions of the writer. It gives you information indirectly and it is all up to you to unlock and connect the adjectives, verbs, and nouns together to form a particular language that the writer is trying to send a message to its readers. The depth of the language and the symbols in poetry are most of the time incomprehensible.

All poems and plays have a story to reveal either happy, sad, or glory. But most poems highlight the memories of love, silence, grief, war, success, death, and even defeat. They correlate pain and misery to darkness, uncertain events, and cold ambiance. Memories are the favorite theme as it depict real life experiences and easy to select words.

Symbolism is a technique widely used by creative writers to deliver a deeper meaning of the words instead of using the literal words. Aside from memories and experiences, writers love to put into words the things that they do observe around them. It is hard to understand especially if you are new to literature and symbolism.

Writing and symbolism are both interesting to learn. Having that urge to learn is achievable by simply going back to the basics that is reading books and more books. Visit your local bookstore or you may search for resources in the internet. There is a need to put yourself into the mind of the writer for you understand those indirect words.

Now if you analyze and think why authors opt for symbolism, the answer is very simple. They want to write vibrant images and strong feelings into words for the readers' to deal with. The words force you to feel and expectedly react to it. Words are very powerful tool for expressing emotions. Just like what they us, a pen is stronger and mightier than a sword.

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.

Good poems have a variety of interpretations which make it so exciting to read. Sometimes it appears to us readers the word to be obscured, disorganized, and usually means the other way. This is a magical experience. It will take a lot of practice to use it right and be able to write symbolism into creative writing.

Literature classes are very challenging. As an aspiring writer, better look for a teacher who can teach you basic symbolism techniques. Teachers can guide and assist you as you learn higher and difficult writings.




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