a ramble on poetry and class

Poetry class so far is a lot of fun. Poetry is really interesting and I like it because it is an entirely different way to write creatively. There is no other style of writing where two words or even one word in a line are so powerful that they can summarize an entire poem. It is a way to write about a fish, a concert, a person or being in love with that person, and doing, usually, in an indirect way. If a poem is broken down enough though it is easy to look past those indirect messages and find the real meaning, which is usually really eye opening. The eye opening part of it is the most impressive side to me because when reading the poems we have read so far it has not been clear to me what those hidden messages and themes are. It has really taken me sometime to figure out these hidden metaphors and when they finally are revealed it brings an entirely new look to the poem. When I sit in class and hear people give their two cents on how the poem resonated with them I am usually suprised because I haven't thought of it that way or I haven't been able to see the obvious signs about what the poem actually means. I think with every poem it gets a bit easier to see the true meaning the author is expressing but it has still been quite hard to get everything out of each poem. So far, I think I have come to the conclusion that I enjoy writing poetry more than reading it but I hope as time goes on both sides of poetry will become of equal liking to me.