When it comes to analyzing poetry
and getting down to the nitty gritty of actually writing it I do believe both processes
truly goes hand in hand. It has been with my personal experience creating
poetry that has led me to this belief. Poetry, like other forms of art should
flow out like molten raw emotion that is unrecognizable until after it is
complete, in which case it’s analysis is free then to begin. It is through the
artist’s or rather writer’s creation in which the reader may have a means to interpret
what they are reading and thus start breaking said poem down, labeling and
recognizing whether it has a specific type of meter used, the amount of stanzas
it contains, the type of rhyme scheme the poem follows, etc. It is true then
that without the process of analyzing poetry we would not be able to understand
what we are reading and thus in turn the poet would not be able to produce said
poem without the knowledge needed in the analysis processes. But, let it be
noted that it is the initial creative intent that helps create the space of
poetry in the first place. With that in mind though a poet should first and foremost
know the rules of his art, as it is a confined art to some extent, if you find
yourself writing a haiku or a Shakespearian sonnet, amongst other styles. It is
then writing about poetry and understanding these differences that would then help
in the process of developing them.
