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What is Poetry?

What is Poetry?. "Poetry comes with anger, hunger, and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appall them if it did." - Christopher Morley. What is Poetry?. "Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."

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What is Poetry?

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  1. What is Poetry? • "Poetry comes with anger, hunger, and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appall them if it did." • - Christopher Morley

  2. What is Poetry? • "Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks." • - Simonides

  3. What is Poetry? • "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry." • - Emily Dickinson

  4. What is Poetry? • "Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life." • - William Rose Benet

  5. What is Poetry? • "Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand." • - Plato

  6. What is a Limerick Poem? • A Limerick is a light or humorous verse form of five lines (of which lines 1, 2, and 5 are of three metrical feet (8-10 syllables) and lines 3 and 4 are of two feet (5-6 syllables) with a rhyme scheme of aabba

  7. Example: • The limerick packs laughs anatomical • In space that is quite economical. • But the good ones I've seen • So seldom are clean • And the clean ones so seldom are comical.

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