Poetry can be spoken or written. People think that they have to rhyme but this is not true. There are tons of poets who don’t rhyme but still can make a poem, feel and describe the same. Poetry can be a learned skill over many years of writing, or a gift you are born with. Throughout poetry’s long history it has relied on rules about what a poem is, with new kinds poetry b

The first poetry was recorded in about 3000 B.C. Some come from Assyro-Babylonia, Sumerian, and Egyptian cultures. Evidence shows that earlier poetry was intended to be sung, at times with musical accompaniment. The Hebrew bible known to Christians as the Old Testament, stands as one of the worlds oldest and most influential poetic works. This ancient art was to mostly praise or inspire, in which it proved its ability to do, surviving all these years. When French poet Stephane Mallarme said “ Poetry is the purification of the language of the tribe” he meant that only poets could understand the poems fully, but later poet William Carlos Williams wrote “ Poetry is written so natural that even dogs and cats could understand” both comments contradict each other but show great opinions of what they think of Poetry, the writers might not agree on the readers standpoint but it is said they both agree on their opinions about the Poets standpoint. Poems have come in many different shapes and sizes in the past but its not really about the size its quality over quantity. (www.Encarta.com)

uilding on an earlier kinds to create greater possibilities of expression. In the 20th century poets have increasingly used the language of everyday speech and created new forms that break the usual rules, t

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