How Do I Love Thee? Abstracting

          My content area is poetry, so this module has been poetry overload!  When I think about what poetry really is, I would have to say that it is, at its essence, a way to express an idea.  What else shares this function?  What else expresses an idea known only to the author, but open to the interpretation of the person who reads it?  A painting can also reveal the feelings of the artist.  Like a poem a painting doesn’t reveal all that the artist was feeling.  Some of the emotions put into the artwork will never be known to the observer.  There will also be feelings that people will get from a poem or a painting that the artist never intended.  The understanding is in the eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hands, and mind of the beholder.

Haiku:

The piece is revealed

What is veiled between the lines?

We may never know.