Poetry_Review_Essay

Poetry Review Essay “If it ain’t nasty, it ain’t funky”: the words of an extroverted and captivating poet by the name of Thomas Sayers Ellis. His style, an odd, yet interesting one, fascinated me, and made me realize poetry was more of an art form then I had previously thought. Actually going to a reading, and hear the poet speak with such a passionate tone to correctly convey the meanings of his poems. His style of reading definitely upped the quality of his poems. He said it himself, that when he was reading a poem aloud before, it sounded bad. With readings, I now realize it is pertinent to accent your poem the way you think it should to get the full meaning across. But don’t stop there. Mr. Ellis showed this through not only impeccable accenting, but also quite a musical tune for most of his irregular yet intriguing poems. The poem “All Their Stanzas Look Alike” was a great one, in my opinion. It took simple sentence structure and amazed me with such intricateness. The lines “All their third worlds / All their world series / All their serial killers / All their killing fields / All their stanzas look alike”. The poem, way, poems, reading, one, line, ellis, zapruder, world, style, mr, andre, yet, works, war, third, starts, stanzas, shows, showed, series, serial, realize, poet, now, look, lines, killing, killers, interesting, himself, good, friend, fields, favorite