What exactly is poetry? I'd love to be able to write it but really don't know where to start. Are there worthwhile books on the subject? I've shared a short work that perhaps is a poem, or perhaps not!?
What exactly is poetry? I'd love to be able to write it but really don't know where to start. Are there worthwhile books on the subject? I've shared a short work that perhaps is a poem, or perhaps not!?
A novel is a dramatic poem.
According to Johnathon Clifford poetry is a disciplined collection of words which, by its controlled sound pattern, or combination of both, cannot be prose.
Emily Dickinson expresses it thus:- 'If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it.
Dorothy L Sayers says' You only experience a thing when you can express it - however haltingly- to your own mind.
I wouldn't begin to try to say what it is but it is something I would like to be able to write well.
best wishes to all poets among us.
rosa.
One of the different kinds of rivulet for thought flow.. is what I feel. A means to express yourself! :)