- 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 favourable or not. Anna Kamieñska, for example, thinks that poetry is like

It has to be emphasized that in every literary era poetry was defined differently. Originally it was nothing more than a set of song’s lyrics and it played a large role in a religious, family or national ceremonies. In Romantic times, for example, lyric poetry differed from epic and drama, for it was supposed to be a language of feelings.

Nevertheless, one must not forget it is a strenuous and bitter work, a painful toil of giving names to the world. E. E. Cummings defines poetry emphasizing its impact

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, 100-acre amusement parks, huge hotels, super supermarkets and bigger newspapers (so that whatever is hideous in life may reach our ears within a few hours of its happening). Poetry is one of the things that can’t be made bigger and better. It must remain quietly and unobtrusively and forever itself. But despite its invisibility many people still read poetry for pleasure today and I would like school children to be among them.

Kamieñska reminds that poetry is also a question of experience to which a

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