Friday, November 21, 2008

What is poetry?

According to Wikipedia.org: Poetry is a form of "literary art". It may be written independently as poems, or it may conjur to some arts like "poetic drama, hymn or lyrics".

To know more about the history of how poetry was defined, you may look in this site:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry


In the Shadow Poetry, a website related to this subject, said that no one has really defined poetry. They define poetry as "the art of writing thoughts, ideas and dreams into imaginative language..."

To know more about this site, click on the link below:
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/intro.html


As you can see, since the very beginning, people like Aristotle had defined poetry and as time goes by, many definitions aroused. Personally, for me, poetry is a kind of art where you express your thoughts, ideas and emotions in a creative way where man have difficulty in expressing it verbally.

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