Poetry

1. Poetry

2. What Is Poetry? Dictionary Definitions: Literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm. Writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm.

3. What Is Poetry? Disregard technical language altogether. Try to separate yourself from definitions. Quick-write what Poetry is to you…

4. In the words of poets… If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. - Emily Dickinson Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. -Robert Frost Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. -Marianne Moore

5. It’s not easy to define poetry. - Bob Dylan

6. Advice about Poetry Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will almost extinguish pleasure. - A.E. Housman If a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. - James Schuyler The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. - T.S. Eliot

7. The Essence of Poetry The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. - George William Curtis In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -Paul Dirac Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. - T.S. Eliot

8. The Essence of Poetry Poetry is nearer to vital truth that history. - Plato For poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.- Aristotle Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what your relationship is to it.- Seamus Heaney