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 ma
In conclusion, poetry is a powerful aspect of communication with various means of accentuating details and speaking. Emotions become apparent as the situation unravels with steady rhythm and different rhyming schemes. Poetry will always exist to exercise the mind.
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.) Nature hums with these rhythms so it is no wonder that man finds poetry and rhythm so fascinating. It may be by impulse that the human race is drawn to this unique form of expression through language, an impulse of pure f