Poetry

10/27/2013

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What does poetry means to people?

In the poem "Bamboo's Insomnia" the author Barbara Jane Reyes expresses her struggles with insomnia. She describes the reason for her inability to fall asleep, she said that a poet is stuck within her. She cannot sleep because there is a poetry she needs to write. Even though the poem is slightly short, she effectively demonstrates the importance of poetry. Through this poem, the readers can see how people might have internal struggles, things that need to be expressed. All these stuff bottle up in a person mind, and causes internal problems such as insomnia. Instead of saying this, Barbara Jane Reyes described it as poetry, the purpose of this is to tell us all that poetry is one of many beautiful ways to express oneself. To her poetry is the source that will help her relieve all her internal pain, express the way she feels, and a way to get rid of her insomnia, to write poems.

Huu Pham



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