Poetry is created from several different key "ingredients" which feed the mind food for thought. Historically poetry has evolved over time to include such aspects as rhythm, rhyme, the senses, emotions and intellect. The universal language of poetry is a bridge that transcends all languages. You need not understand the language of poetry to understand the inspired emotion and feeling behind it only tune in your natural instincts to the other aspects of the poetry and the door to a new world will be opened before your senses.
Poetry has enriched every culture with its flowing rhymes and picturesque word phrases since the birth of language. It has been used in multiple ways for our human race. One such way was the passing on of legend and myths as Warren states in the following passage,.
"In preliterate cultures, the myths and history of the tribe, the magical incantations, and the religious rituals went into verbal forms which facilitated transmission for generation to generation. In this aspect the form had a practical efficacy in preserving and transmitting information, but the form also, we must remember, combined the urgencies of the material being transmitted with the urgencies of rhythm- (3).
I might conclude from the passage, however, that poetry is a natural form of language having been used in preliterate times in any form and because it helped create a way for people to remember stories even if they were frequently " the teasing possibilities of sense really come to nothing."(2). Of course in this way, poetry was used as a utility to pass on information and not like entertainment, as it was used in later centuries, especially in the time of Shakespeare.
Rhythm is key to the structural make-up of poetry and "a principle of all life and activity and is, of course, deeply involved in the experience of, and the expression of emotion."(2). Rhythm surrounds us in life for, "The human body itself is a locus of rhythms: the beat of the heart, the inhalation and exhalation of breath, waking and sleeping, effort and rest-(2.
Yet, it is hard to talk about poetry. ... Thus, defining poetry is not an easy task. ... Poetry is the deepest expression of thought and feeling. ... Cummings defines poetry emphasizing its impact upon a man. ... He also puts a question: "Does poetry only belong to bygone days when the average person spent what little leisurely time he did have reading and reciting?...
Yet, it is hard to talk about poetry. ... Thus, defining poetry is not an easy task. ... Poetry is the deepest expression of thought and feeling. ... "Poetry is feeling - not knowing or believing or thinking."" ... He also puts a question: "Does poetry only belong to bygone days when the average person spent what little leisurely time he did have reading and reciting?...
What should and shouldn't be included? ... This simple definition only characterizes poetry on the surface, but there is so much more to poetry than just words. ... The first of Hughes questions is: "What happens to a dream deferred?" ... These two are what make an author like Langston Hughes so interesting; each reader finds in him what is adequate to satisfy their own taste. ... After analyzing both Langston Hughes" poem and Lorraine Hansberry's play it give me a better understanding of what exactly poetry is. ...
Poetry Poetry is a very deep subject; it can show feeling and emotion towards something or someone. ... Poetry is an art an ancient one at that. ... They both have shown that although there is going to be difficulty that with lots of hard work and effort you can achieve your dream and do or be what ever you want. ... Throughout poetry's long history it has relied on rules about what a poem is, with new kinds poetry building on an earlier kinds to create greater possibilities of expression. ... When French poet Stephane Mallarme said " Poetry is the purification of the langua...
In the art of poetry there is not one right way or wrong way to write or there is not type of discrimination that comes along with it. ... The poets try to grasp the art form that you call poetry. ... Bitain compares his poetry to everything that you can imagine or think of in our society. ... (lines 13-17) What Bitain is basically saying is that no matter where he goes there is poetry regardless if it is not being spoken or recited. Poetry in modern days is more of what you can touch on to keep the reader interested, and in this poem I am sure that there is no way that a reader would n...
In "Let me not" William Shakespeare tells us the story from his point of view and what he thinks love is. ... According to Traditional poetry has the greater store of principles. Such things as: Poetry is language organized for aesthetic purposes. Poetry must not only describe but also bear witness. ... They are what we work and struggle for, fight for and dream about. ...
Poetry has a long history, dating back to the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. ... One that seems to be trending lately is a type of genre called "poetry slam. " Poetry slam is "a competition at which poets read or recite original work. ... Depending on what type of slam you are attending the max judges are five and the minimum is three. ... The growing history and influence of the poetry slam, especially on the younger generation of writers, suggest that the practice is not just a passing "fad. " The serious critic must cease treating the slam as a literary novelty and recognize it for what it is...
Wallace Stevens" Of Modern Poetry Modern art treads a thin line between what is "art" and what is pretentious junk. ... Therefore the interpretation of what is art and what is not is left completely up to the individual viewer and there is no right or wrong to it. ... Stevens opens the poem with the assertion that modern poetry is "in the act of finding what will suffice." ... Next, Stevens draws a parallel from the world of poetry to the world of theater by comparing poetry to an actor. ... In fact, Stevens himself writes what is considered modern poetry; he uses no consistent or tr...