... of thinking or a formal versification? Does it consist solely of words, or are there visual and/or performance aspects to it? What should and shouldn't be included? A typical dictionary might define poetry as literary composition written in verse with meaning. This simple definition only characterizes poetry on the surface, but there is so much more to poetry than just words. People ... can never define poetry; however they are able to attempt to describe its properties, functions, and characteristics as clearly as possible. The most distinctive feature of poetry is the presence of line...

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... but also for the richness and intensity of personality accomplished. In this paper, this poem will be examined from two literary theories. Literary theories are some ideas which try to define what literature is and how it needs to be studied. These focus on the nature of literature and present some methods to analyze those. These theories are like different lenses ... Modernist movement in art, Modernism became stylistically very different from the other theories. Predominant was the free use of indirect speech, the use of comparison, overwhelming use of personification, irony, metaphor...

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