American Poetry Today

Today, poetry can still be found yet it’s not as popular as before comparing to the past. Poetries today tend to be free verse and less restricted  than in the old days. If we consider song as another form of poetries, I’ll consider that poetry is still popular today. Songs are like poetry in ways that it creates a beautiful rhyme scheme in its lyrics with combination of beautiful melodies. Although most of the words are not really rhymed like the ones in poems, the feeling we get from poem and songs are essentially the same type. We recite it and enjoy the melody and the up and down mood of the music. Although not as many people read and write poetry today, people start to create a new type of rhyming art called rapping. In many pop songs, people incoporate rapping to add varieties to songs. Although I do not like most rapping songs, but it is a new way of expressive poem that also uses rhyming, metaphor and other figure of speeches to express one’s feelings. Is poetry important to me? Probably it’s not that important to me right now because I haven’t really understood the deeper meaning underneath the poem other than its literal interpretation, but when I grow older and read more of it, I will probably find poetry to be really important.