do you think poets write poems so we can sit and analyse them in class? or just so we can read and enjoy?

Answer 1

I think they write them because they are insane mentally challenged fools who get excited when words rhyme.

sad, sad stuff my friend.

Answer 2

Both. Manyhave hidden meaning to them so poets want you to red and analize it to find what the poem REAL is trying to tell youand at the same time enjoy their poetry becuse isnt that what anyone wnats? For people to enjoy their poems,bokks,etc. Of course that doesnt mean they want you to analyze it in a stuffy c/r but it most feel like an honor for them if oyu do.

Answer 3

I think poets write poems because they were born to do it and they have no other way of expressing themselves than to do so.

I think the fact that they can sell their written soul to the rest of the world and that you analyze them in English class is just a side effect of something greater.

Many poets were never even published in their lifetime, because they didn't want to or they didn't like it or because they didn't even think they were talented- what happens just happens, and class is trying to teach you to think in a critical manner in order to understand the written word better. The poems are just a great, accessible way of demonstrating these skills to you.

Not to mention they are awesome to read and oftentimes brilliant.

Answer 4

There are many reasons why someone would write poetry. To express themselves, to feel better, because they feel creative and would like to share their works with someone... And once their poems are published, or simply posted to a site like y.a., the poems are left for everyone to judge, to analyse, to criticise, to enjoy, to dream about, etc.
Or, like Shakespeare for instance, the poems may be written and addressed to the person they love...

Answer 5

As a poet, I write as an expression of feelings, thoughts, personal experiences, dreams, fantasies, etc...

I do not expect for you to sit in your class and analyze my work. I would however, like it if you read my work. If you enjoyed it, so much the better for we two.

No one person can like everything.

Peace,
Sam

Answer 6

I like to think of myself as a poet.

I write because I must.

However, I do think of the reader and I would love the reader to enjoy and also understand my poem. The reader doesn't have to understand the poem the way I understand it - he can have his own interpretation. I think there is a greater enjoyment of any art form when a person analyzes it - because then the art, whether it is poetry or some other art form, is enhanced and becomes more meaningful - it grows and you grow with it.

Answer 7

Well i think yall should write them so yall can enjoy the poems and enjoy writing them.

Answer 8

I wouldn't agree completely with answer # 1 in his descriptive word use, but certainly any writer immerses themselves in Words.

For many of us, the readers enjoyment, or even the analysis was never the point to begin with. If I wrote to strictly please others, I might be on the verge of prostituting myself.

Obviously a decent, well written piece, that has any levels of impact in creating "feelings" in a reader, is like a sweet piece of Cake, to the Author. If the reader actually enjoys the piece, and perhaps even suggests, or shares it, then they have added Icing to the Cake.

"Enjoy" is a pretty subjective, relative word anyway. I might write a very dark piece, that happens to be "medicinal" for me. I might be suspect if someone actually claimed they "Liked" it.

Steven Wolf

Answer 9

the only reason they write poem is for them to enjoy ........but since they need to earn livelihood they publish it and interested people buy and read it.............