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Sunday, 19 October 2014

Understanding 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.

Creative writers prefer symbolism because it can help in deepening the sense and import of every word they use. Literal words are kind of boring and predictable. Writers easily fall in love with observation because they can gather inspiration from it. It is pretty normal to feel dumb because you cannot comprehend the words right away.

Getting interested with symbolism and writing, better invest with books because you can find here some examples and the meanings are often provided as guidance. If you are out of budget, you can always browse the internet for other sources of information about literature and the old and new symbolism techniques. Messages are delivered indirectly to challenge every reader that might come across the work of a seasoned writer.

Now if you dare ask why writer choose symbolism, well, the answer is simple -- to create strong feelings and vibrant images in the mind of the reader. It also takes out the feelings and amazingly unique and unexpected reactions are formed after. Aside from drawing out emotions and pictures it is also a way to creative and artistic writing.

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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