My Bias Towards Second Person Poetry

    Last Week I came up with the poem "Every Day Is The Same," below are my favorite lines,

"YOU cook, you eat, you poop, you sleep

It is all a nonstopping cycle of racing heat

Hey YOU waky waky 

School is waiting for YOU"

    You might have noticed my emphasis on the word "YOU." This is because writing in the second person creates a clearer message that successfully delivers the speaker's (ME) purpose of conveying how every day is the same. Personally, I love poems that are written in the second POV. IT SIMPLY WORKS! POV is a great factor in whether or not the poem will be liked by the audience. It is scientifically proven that people want to talk about themselves and enjoy others talking about them because it simply makes them feel important. Well, what does this have to do with POV? EVERYTHING! Almost no one wants to know about another person's life -okay, maybe they do, but the majority would prefer if the poem was about them. This is why speakers who write in second POV, in my opinion, have a clearer message than what they are trying to say because they are demanding the reader's attention and giving them orders or a story which creates a broader connection that leads to sympathy. Now let me tell you about my own experience with POV...

    When I first came to America, I had very little knowledge of English. I mean... to be honest, all I had learned back in Mexico were the easy words such as "You," "I like," and "Cookie." Anyway, whenever someone tried to tell me about their day, they obviously had to use the word "I," but with my lack of understanding, it was very hard to place myself in their shoes, making it difficult for me to understand their situations. It was almost as if they were to say, "Yeah, last week I went to my sister's uncle's father-in-law's nephew's ant's husband's house." OKAY! maybe that's a little too exaggerated, but you get it. The point I'm trying to emphasize is how it's hard to connect the points when speaking in the first person. Whenever my friends referred to me as "YOU," it was much easier to understand what they were trying to say because I didn't need to think twice nor make my brain work harder, all I had to do was follow the instructions and listen. I don't know if perhaps I'm being too egotistical for not wanting to feel empathy, but to be honest, back then, as an 8-year-old, it took TOO MUCH BRAIN POWER!

    Now, as my last few words I'll say this again 2nd POV is so much better than 1rst. EASY, BETTER, GOOD!