POETRY IS AMAZING!!!!!!!

I cannot believe that I’ve been taking poetry class for two weeks. I worried a lot at the beginning because poetry was something really hard to write and understand in my mind based on my culture background. So I am a Chinese; there is a tradition in china that all the children should memorize some old poems when they are little. All the poems in my memory are hard because we have many rules. (OOPS, I FORGOT I HAVE TO CAPITALIZE, GONNA START TO DO IT NOW). FOR EXAMPLE, ALL THE POEMS SHOULD BE 4 OR 8 SENTENCES WITH SAME AMOUNT OF WORDS IN EACH SENTECES; MOST IMPORTANTLY, RHYTHM!!! SO OUR POEMS LOOK LIKE THAT

空山新雨后，天气晚来秋。

　　明月松间照，清泉石上流。
　　竹喧归浣女，莲动下渔舟。

随意春芳歇，王孙自可留。

AFTER I READ “THE BUGLE SONG” BY TENNYSON, I WAS SURPRISED ABOUT ITS STUCTURE. ENGLISH POEMS GAVE THE WRITERS MORE FREEDOM TO USE DIFFERENT FORMATS AND WORDS. EVERYONE CAN WRITES POEMS. I WROTE MY FIRST ENGLISH POEM IN MY LIFE AND I WAS SO HAPPY TO HEAR THE APPLAUSE FROM MY CLASSMATES. BESIDES READING THE POEMS, I REALLY ENJOY READING THE STORIES OF THE POETS BECAUSE MANY OF THEM HAVE ABNORMAL LIFE EXPIRIENCE AND THEIR POEMS ARE AOMETIMES CONNECTED TO THEIR LIVES. IT IS STILL HARD FOR ME TO GET WHAT THE POETS ARE TRYING TO TELL IN THE POEMS, BUT I AM EXCITED FOR THE REST OF THE CLASS BECAUSE I ALREADY HAVE A PASSION OF POETRY!!!IT IS SO ATTRACTIVE!!!