Comparing Dog Haiku, Sonnet 18 And This Is Just To Say

The use of words have been around since the cavemen and poems followed soon after. Authors tend to try and express deep emotions through poems such has ballads, Haikus, and rhyme to name a few. Sometimes the authors can drown the message they are trying to convey in a slew of words that tend to confuse the readers. The less word the better is something that a large amount of authors try to abide by when writing poems. Now with things like twitter where the author of the tweet only gets 140 characters to grab the attention of the readers, short poems with a deeper meaning than what first meets the eye is what writers are trending towards. Authors like William Williams paved the way for communication using less words back in 1923. The use of words in poems can sometimes go overboard, but the authors of “Dog Haiku”, “Sonnet 18”, and “This is Just to Say”, to name a few, take a stand writing short poems that still express their deep thoughts. Sometimes short and sweet is the way to write.
It is only nine lines long expressing the day of a dog. Anonymous wrote this poem in 2001, some would say that he was ahead of his time in the writing style he used since he only had to use 43 word. The poem seems simple, it is a day in the eyes of a dog. The short sentences show the short thoughts and attention span dogs are perceived to have. The author also does a good job jumping from one thought to another, where in any other literary work, would be scorned for the seemingly meaning less haiku. He goes from, “I sniffed many dog behinds-I celebrate by kissing your face” (Anonymous 403) This series of sentences also makes one think about the way humans treat dogs. Throughout the day a dog’s mouth is by another dog’s behind, then their owner lets the dog lick their face with