When working with poetry, there is definitely more than one way to create purpose, especially when one considers whether it is the reader or the writer who is creating said purpose. If the poet is the one generating purpose, he has a couple ways to go about it- through diction as well as syntax. The reader creates purpose for himself while reading poetry by implementing the words in their life experiences and applying it to what they know already.
In their poetry, its authors have the ability to mold the poem into what they want it to be using words, punctuation, and even original things like shaping poems into different formations to add to intended meaning, it is ultimately up to the reader to take what they read and create a purpose for themselves, be it the same or different from what the writer intended. There is comfort in the idea that nothing is necessarily a wrong interpretation. In analyzing poetry, one finds that most poetry, if not all of it, is up for discussion and interpretation. While one may read a poem in one way, it is quite likely that based on a variety of factors, anyone else could take the poem in a completely different direction. Readers stress different ideas or words when reading, and this may be something they do based on a relationship with a certain word or phrase or simply random. Poems often have the ability to take on different meanings if read at different hours, days, or even times in one’s life. A prose example of this idea would be reading the infamous book by Saint-Exupery, “The Little Prince.” While the book can be read by most, considering its lower reading level, the meaning has a different depth at every age. Poetry is fully capable of having this power as well.
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