My First Blog For Humalit EH

You know what I like Ars Poetica? It is the fact that it presents itself and use words that are simple and easy to understand yet with all of its simplest words, it was still able to give a very deep and complex meaning. For me, when I first read it all of its text was very basic and I didn't even need to use a dictionary; but the meaning itself is shown despite its simple use of terms. The author was keeping it simple. When you think about it poems usually pertain to themes or things about the world. Most poems are always focus on others and not focus on how a poem should be like and for me I thought it was quite unique but as said in the class , one cannot say its unique unless there was no one able to have that same context. What made me said that it was unique was because of all my childhood a poem never particularly talks about the poem itself; in a sense where it is saying what a poem should be like. It usually pertains to the things or themes in life but never really about poems and also that is why I think that this poem should be read by literature majors because it was good in both delivering a good poem and at the same time delivering what a poem should be like. Some students like me always keep on making poems force to rhyme and never really thinking about the context of it. There is nothing that in this poem that I would dislike because it is in fact a very good poem. How do I say this? well for the fact that its context was not too deep and not to simple to understand. Parts of the poem are just enough to be understood by anyone. Unlike other poems where it is so deep that you need to have a doctorate to degree to decipher its meaning. I personally don’t really get poems on what they are targeting or what is they’re objective because at an early age teachers are just forcing students to just read it and never really tell what a purpose of a poem. The Ars Poetica may just describe what a poem should be but just by simply knowing the characteristic of a poem, you would already know what it is trying to tell or what its objective is. A sample in the poem line is “Dumb As old medallions to the thumb”. That line right there describes a poem that it should make people remember memories of the past so basically just by knowing that fact you already know that a poems objective is to try make you feel and reflect on the past. Even if a poem is just not arguing it is trying to make you feel something when you read it and for me that is the objective of a poem. To make you feel something and to relate.