- writing, that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in

language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through

its meanings, sound and rhythm.

Poetry is the deepest expression of thought and feeling. 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. We can read it as though we ourselves have shared in those thoughts and those emotions. It can be said that poetry has been helping men and women from all backgrounds and cultures share deep emotional experiences and insights throughout all recorded history.

Admittedly, everyone has an opinion about poetry, either favourab

In my opinion to answer this inquiry one should have a look at the present state of the world. Nowadays only bigger and better things really matter – interstate highways,

Amplifying this idea it must be added that every poet views poetry, its functions and aims in a different way. The Romantics, for instance, thought of poetry as full of life and feelings. John Keats wrote in his “Letters” that poetry “(...) should surprise by a fine excess, (...) it should strike the Reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts and appear almost a Remembrance”. In other words poetry should be simple and understood by every man. Another great poet of Romantic times – Samuel Taylor Coleridge qualified poetry as “the best words in the best order”, while Percy Bysshe Shelley defined it as “the expression of the Imagination”. But in my humble opinion the most beautiful definition belongs to William Wordsworth. For him poetry was: “a man speaking to men” and “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”. (Gower, 1996)

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