Saturday, October 18, 2014

Understanding Good Literature And Symbols In Poetry

By Patty Goff


Being a student of literature, you may have a hard time dissecting and analyzing short stories, novels, plays, and poems of the great popular authors. Your professor might be giving you home works that will require the understanding of the meanings of words and phrases when knitted altogether. There is a need to unlock the words to understand it.

Emotions, opinions, feelings, and the perception or views of the author are just the things that literature always represents. Readers are obliged to unlock the mystery and link the adjectives, nouns, and verbs altogether. There is a secret message hidden in every phrase and stanza and when you finally unlocked it, you will be amazed on how great the author in using symbols in poetry with mystery with inexplicable truth and lies.

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.

Symbolism is a method used by creative writers of poems and novels to deliver deep and dark meanings of short phrases instead of writing those literal boring words. Apart from their own experiences and memories, these writers prefer to describe the people they have observed and the places that they have visited.

There are books that you can buy in bookstores wherein you can study the meanings of symbolisms used by writers. You can also access websites over the internet which is dedicated to love of literature. If you can observe, the words allow you to imagine what the writer is thinking. But this is done indirectly outlined and this is really a challenge to most students.

If you wonder why writers love to insert symbolic words well it is easy. Writers desire to create visible images inside the minds of their readers and take out their emotions out of their system. It is very unique and effective to draw out unexpected reactions from different people. It is some kind of another form of artistry but in words.

Wanting to learn the use of symbolism as your main method of writing, you better begin with writing few words than writing many descriptive sentences or phrases. Just limit your words. Use your imagination in expressing and losing your emotions in paper. Do not rush things. Flow the imagery of lines that suit best to your motive of writing. The content should be hard and exciting.

Great written poems usually deliver varied interpretations by different readers. Sometimes, the words appear to be much obscured, opposite, and disorganized making it difficult to fathom. Due to the arrangement of lines, it gives a sense of magic every end of the lines. Keep reading and appreciate the good outcome of constant practice in 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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