Journal Entry 41: Poetry

The differences between poems and other forms of writing are that the poem often use symbolic words to represent the actual meaning of the word; but other forms of writing use simple words to tell the story. Generally, poems has more rhymes, but the other forms of writing doesn't. The poems do have some similarities   with other kinds of writing. Some poems are basically telling the story to the reader, so as other kinds of writing. Also, the poems can do the same thing as other forms of expression, such as telling the story through the lines in the poems, and changing the mood of the poems by using different tones. Still, some poems can do things that other forms of expression can't. Poems can be a long poetry, but songs can't; although story can be a novel, but the difference between novel and poem is that poem has rhyme at the end of the lines, the story don't. Not all the poems are all-power than other forms of writing. There are something that the poems can't do. Other forms of writing, such as stories, can convey the concrete information in the stories; but, the poems are more abstract to infer the actual meaning. In the present world, we can still see the poems around us. Songs are the transformation of the poems. They both express the emotions, inform the experiences, and create images in our head.