Poetry often starts with feelings and ends with a deep lesson about life and human nature. As a reader, you have probably experienced being moved, inspired, and impacted by a poem. Thus, according to Study.com, poetry is when a feeling has discovered its concept, and the idea has discovered words.
There are different matters that poets often consider when writing, such as self-expression, experience, and the likes. From that, poets surprisingly create masterpieces that build an emotional connection to the readers on their own. Somehow, it seems like poetry knows how to connect to its readers even without realizing or intending it in the first place.
The great choice of words, build-up of imagery, usage of figurative language, and other remaining factors are the primary sources of emotion that can contribute to the mood of the work that can appeal to the readers. Hence, the following are some of the emotions evoked by poetry that has already been felt by many:
Love
If you are an avid reader of poems, you probably have observed that love is the most commonly depicted emotion. The reason behind it is that many can relate to it — not just on romantic affection but also on the different types of love. For example, Poetry in Motion Quattlbaum book about life makes you fall in love with the idea of expressing oneself through life.
Thus, self-love and inspiration can emerge from this book. There are also other books that can evoke other kinds of love, such as mother’s love in Trini: My Life of Poems, love for self and adventure Love Her Wild, etc.
Compassion
Compassion is linked to both empathy and sympathy. It is the emotional response that generates a strong feeling to help others. Upon reading several poems, you tend to witness the experiences of the poet, recognize people’s struggles, be aware of the issues in society, appreciate life, and more. From all these aspects, awareness and sensitivity to other people’s battles and experiences spring up. Thus, you start to become compassionate.
Sadness
In this lifetime, sadness is one of the most common emotions. There are many aspects that can trigger it, leading people to feel disappointed, hopeless, disinterested, down, and among others. Given that poetry also highlights human experience, readers start to relate to the emotion and mood implied by the text during or after the reading process.
What makes the emotional connection stronger is the way the piece is written and the message is hidden. For example, the persona is deeply grieving, but the work doesn’t directly tell you they are; instead, it walks you through their experience, thoughts, and feelings. As a result, you become affected by the text, making you feel the same emotion and look back on the times that you were in the same situation.
Hatred
With the raw emotions and experiences captured by poetry, readers become more invested in reading them. There are poems that contain different messages, but most of these points are either based on real events or inspired by a certain thought, person, object, and the likes. There are also works that are written with ravaging feelings that radiate to the readers. For example, a persona is narrating her years of living with abusive parents.
As a reader, hatred towards the abusers starts to brew within your while compassion for the persona arises. Moreover, there are definitely various works that can make you feel hate for a person, place, memory, and object. And, when you experience that emotion while reading, that’s when you can say that a poem is effective.
Pain
You probably have observed that pain seems like a constant variable in most poems. What could be the reason behind it? Pain has been felt by many, whether physically or emotionally. Thus, there are many poems that convey profound messages relating. With multiple works that depict pain with the help of figurative language and other elements, readers gradually connect with the text and recognize the familiar emotion. Hence, they become moved by the piece, look back on their painful experience, gain appreciation from the pain that they’ve gone through, or generate other intense emotions relating to it.
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