Poetry and Shakespear...

    As I've been recently learning about poetry and studying the techniques of Shakespear , I've notices that his way of expressing poetry is much different from the way poets express today. What I mean by this is that Shakespear wrote his poems in ways that you would almost never imagine of writing in such a way. Not only because he he's been around in the time where english was spoken differently, but the messages/ themes he puts into the poems are very interesting. For example, in one of the sonnets he has written that I learned about in class, he writes about the characteristics of a girl and the way he describes her isn't really the normal way a man would describe a women. He actually admitted that she was pretty ugly, realistically, but his message was that he speaks the truth and he is unlike the way men usually describe women...that would be that they have (for example) hair that flows like the waves, or eyes as bright as the sun, etc. Shakespear points out the fact that this women may not meet the standards of other guy's imagination of a fake girl, but she is beautiful because she is real. She may not have eyes that beam like the sun or roses on her cheeks but she is real, which-to Shakespear, makes her beautiful! That message is just one of the many that he sets out through his poems, and that's what makes his way of poetry have a sprinkle of uniqueness...