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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Understanding 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.

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.

Every poem or story has its own theme to talk about. It may highlight about love, grief, success, defeat, death, war, and silence. They associate pain and suffering to dark, cold, and uncertain events. Writers use of memories and describe the events in creative selection of words that could really stimulate your imagination.

Symbolism is a technique widely used by creative writers to deliver a deeper meaning of the words instead of using the literal words. Aside from memories and experiences, writers love to put into words the things that they do observe around them. It is hard to understand especially if you are new to literature and symbolism.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Actually there are literature classes that teach students and young writers who wish to learn excellent writing skills. The teacher will guide the student to magnify the words' meanings. Learning symbolism in crash courses is progressive. The higher you go, the more difficult the readings are.




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