In my experience, both nonfiction and fictitious pieces may share similar goals but have almost entirely different ways to get there. On one hand, imaginative or fictive work gives an interesting and creative outlook on any given topic. While nonfiction is usually focused less on flare or flashy details and more on getting across as much of the topic’s information to readers as possible. These types of works are more direct in their intended message, leaving less up to the consumer’s imagination. Interpretations that are reached from a nonfiction work will often be consistently similar between parties. Whereas, fictive or imaginative creations leave a myriad of understandings for a viewer to reach. The intended meanings for makings of this nature are not as clear cut, supplying observers’ room for numerous ways to reach a conclusion thorough their own thoughts, feelings and reactions.

Poems are expressive pieces of writing, usually utilizing a rhyme scheme of some sorts. Data is a collection of information, often for study or reference. As almost any two topics, these two forms of writing have their similarities and differences. For example, data or statistics can be used in poems, just as, poems may also be used as a reference by someone gathering data. I believe the real difference lies in the effect the viewer feels while reading poems or data. A report is more likely to be used as an informative body of work that is more for analytic thinking. Poetry is more animated and sensitive. Poems can contain and convey the creators’ emotions on the reader or listener. This more colorful form of expression has many a way to use words to create an illustration in one’s mind. Such dialogue is used in White Houses, “Your door is shut against my tightened face, And I am sharp as steel with discontent” (McKay). Here, the protagonist emotions are being compared to a non living object such as steel. This is to create a more vivid image in the readers mind regarding how emotional the subject is. Similes such as this are often used in the writing of poetry in order to further their emphatic description.

I would also like to discuss the importance of visuals in the subject of relaying information. Most individuals in the world are susceptible to believing something only once they have seen it with their own eyes. Due to this, works like photography and illustrated images play a pivotal role in assisting to get one’s point across. These items are similarly compared with each other just as poems and data. Photography is an art where pictures are taken of moments or events that have taken place. This would compare to data in that it is usually factual. Once a photo is taken, that picture is proof of what occurred and transpired at that given point in time. Illustrations like drawings or paintings give more freedom in what they are able to depict and be interpreted as, comparable to poems. Take the image above for example, the artist could have just as well went out and taken a picture of an area of Harlem. I am convinced the decision to draw it instead was to give a more personal feel to the image and to create exactly what they wanted to show.