The 'Joy' of Writing

“My outlet becomes self-destructive/a never-ending journey of self doubt.”

The poem "The 'Joy' of Writing." truly captures the struggles that one must go through when someone is writing a poem. It really captures the essence of the hardships of the craft of poetry entails. The poem does it in such a way that allows the reader to fall into the trap and it seems as though that was the poet's intention. The diction is both basic, yet so sophisticated and that makes the poem speak volumes and makes it that much more of a piece of art.

The structure of the poem is also quite wonderful in terms of the rhyme and how well crafted the rhyme was used. Also, the way in which the stanzas were broken up help depict the idea of struggle when writing a poem. A common question that a poet will ask themselves is how do I break up my poem? And "The 'Joy' of Writing." captures this quite well. The title itself juxtaposes the content in the poem and that seems to be cleverly done as well. It gives the author almost this sense of false hope when reading the poem, and this makes the reading of the poem that much more interesting. Based off of the title alone, the reader is led to believe that the poem may be a lot happier and just a light fun read. When in reality the poem isn't very happy and has a more serious meaning to it. This seems be done in such an artful manner and it makes the poem that much more interesting.

The flow of the poem is wonderful and it really entices you and you can't stop reading. The poem truly takes you on a journey in which you are both mesmerized yet trapped by the wonders and hardships of creating a poem.