First Blog Post, What I've Learned

Studying Browning and Tennyson this past week has proven to me that poetry can be about anything. Poetry can be about love, hate, adventure, beauty; poetry can be anything. The first concept we studied in the past two weeks, is that poetry has ‘no rules.’ Browning and Tennyson bring to their work their own assets that make poetry fit for them. The Iambic Pentameter in Browning’s How They Brought the Good News From Ghent to Aix makes the action in the poem seem more alive. As the reader, I felt that I was travelling with the men and their horses; it gives the reader a feeling of how fast the men were really travelling.