Narrative: Readings - "what is comics poetry?"

What is Comics Poetry:

An Essay By Alexander Rothman

 This readings uses tons of rhetorical questions and Rothman starts off by asking "so what is poetry?" he says that it is the purest form of language and he goes on to talk about the history of poetry and how the earliest poems came from oral traditions. He then says that he doesn't think there is one standard "correct" definition of poetry and that it is very broad. Rothman says that he has a similar difficulty in defining what comics are, he refers to it as images in a form of writing. He says that both poetry and comics are similar in the fact that the most basic form of each is juxtaposition. 

   I found this reading very helpful in describing what exactly comic poetry is and Rothman also asks the reader tons of questions about why and how we express the things we do in a piece of work, which I found very helpful. Some things that Rothman said that I really enjoyed were "broad definitions let more work in" and "the more one engages art, the more one inhabits different perspectives and subjectives". I enjoyed these quotes because they are things that I really agree on with Rothman. He also says "poem is a map to a poet's thinking" which really got me thinking about different ideas to incorporate into the next small work. Overall I felt like this reading was very helpful in giving context and insight into the new topic.