Wednesday, January 14, 2009
What is Poetry?
Poetry can be a lot of things. When I think of poetry, I think of all different styles and formats of writing. I think of Haikus, epics, and Walt Whitman. Poetry is more than stanzas and line spaces and words. It's more than analyzing and reading. Poetry is beauty. You can live a million different lives in poetry, and you can do horrible things. Poetry is just sensical stories. It can mean so much and so little at the same time. Poetry shouldn't be defined as literature organized into stanzas and line breaks. Poetry will always be the most amazing form of writing. That's what Webster needs to learn.
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Good work. And Whitman...wow...poetry would still be formal had it not been for him. He liberated poetry. Now it doesn't have to rhyme, have structure, and be written as stanzas.
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