What is poetry

What is poetry?

Poetry has many definitions:

Wordsworth defined poetry as the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings..

Emily Dickinson said, If I read a book and it makes my body so cold no fire ever can warm me, I know that is poetry.

Dylan Thomas defined poetry this way: "Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing."

is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content.

Who writes poems?

A poet

Authors

Everyone

How many different kinds of poems are there?

There are 7 types of poems that are:

A haiku poem has three lines and 17 syllables.

A quatrain has four lines.

A chinquapin has five lines.

A limerick has five lines.

A diamante poem is shaped like a diamond.

A couplet poem has rhyming stanzas, each made up of two lines.

Which are the differences among them?

How long or short are them, and the thinks that it talks about.

Name 10 famous poets?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Anne Bradstreet

Allen Ginsberg

Henrik Ibsen

Homer

James Weldon Johnson

Horace

Francesco Petrarch

Emily Dickinson

William Wordsworth

What’s your personal opinion about poetry?

I really don't like poetry, I have made some poems but there not as cool as the ones made from real poets.

Your favorite poem?

The ones that I write

What is rhythm?

Movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like.

What is pattern?

Consistent and recurring characteristic or trait that helps in the identification of a phenomenon or problem.

When and where does poetry started?

England sh. 1500 or in Greece XI VII BC.

Bibliographic:

http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/poetry/a/poetry.htm

http://www.thefamouspeople.com/poets.php

http://www.divinecaroline.com/122444/96729-writes-poetry

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