Writing Through Different Explorations And How Subverting...

Poetry, what first comes to mind? If your anything like me, poetry can seem somewhat monotonous, rather like a locked door exclusive, complicated, and hard to understand. I think poetry tends to be a big game of â€Å"Guess what I’m thinking!† and I hate that game. I’m not a mind-reader. I think a lot of people who get excited about poetry are really pretentious. This possibly comes from believing that they actually can guess what other people are thinking. When we think poetry, we tend to know poetry by it’s traditional forms of having sonnets, ballads, often rhyming (but not always) and they tend to have a specific and symmetrical structure (APA). Throughout this essay I wanted to consider poetry through different explorations and how subverting the traditional conventions of poetry might be an effective way of engagement or in an opposing way of demotivating the reader. Looking into the explorational work of a highly regarded New Zealand poet and scholar, Selina Tusitala-Marsh, we truly get an insight of someone who goes against the traditional conventions of poetry. Her collection of poems called Dark Sparring is about â€Å"†¦the journey of Marsh’s feelings about her mother’s death – wars declared, lists made, a â€Å"Mantra† written, even a printed Ransom Note. Other poems explain how Marsh took to Muay Thai kickboxing to cope with her grief following the death of her mother† (APA). Looking closely at the poem Ransom Note, it gives the effects of using an excessive number ofShow MoreRelatedHow Shakespeare And Rossetti Engage With The Sonnet1241 Words   |  5 PagesThis essay will address how Shakespeare and Rossetti engage with the sonnet form, through Rossetti’s â€Å"A Sonnet† and Shakespeare’s â€Å"Sonnet 52†. Both poets arguably subvert the traditional Petrarchan sonnet ge nre, though in different ways. Rossetti’s ‘A Sonnet’ explores the sonnet as an art form rather than as a means of currency, as sonnets were seen to be at the time, and how if treated as a commodity, the value of a sonnet is diminished. Similarly, Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 52’ explores the connection