The art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts.
Class ideas on poetry:
Collection of emotion
Free thoughts -- Creative, expressive manner
Deliberate continuous flow of words -- evoke feeling/ meaning
Interpreted in various meanings
Colorful way of painting a picture of world
Expression -- Written/ Verbal/ Visual
Helps make people feel things
As defined from this list of ideas:
Poetry is the deliberate grouping of descriptive words to evoke a feeling or meaning.
My understanding is that poetry is free thought used in an expressive, creative manner to convey ones' thoughts to his/ her readers.
It is a colorful way of painting a picture of ones' point-of-view of the world.
From discussions with my dad about poetry:
In poetry you can provoke understanding by apparent contradiction.
But my favorite definition, for now, would be:
Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing.
-- Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
Dylan Thomas' quote is an excellent way to describe poetry. I feel the exact same way. Poetry is one of my favorite forms of writing, typically because I connect to it easier.
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