1. WHAT IS POETRY?
The truth is that we are affected by poetry - we love it, hate it, or are indifferent. ... It includes the full gamut of all human experiences, from war poems and epics, through psalms of worship, love sonnets, to nursery rhymes - anything people think about or sing about. ... In Romantic times, for example, lyric poetry differed from epic and drama, for it was supposed to be a language of feelings. ... The Romantics, for instance, thought of poetry as full of life and feelings. ... Another great poet of Romantic times - Samuel Taylor Coleridge qualified poetry as "the best words in the be...
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