A Poem: What is Poetry?

[UrbyKris]

What do you think of Edgar Allan Poe

[Helios601]

Norman McCaig poetry is outstanding.

[RealEros1]

Am studying poetry

for many personal reasons

haha so can any state any

great forms of poetry?

I want to master writing long poems.

Free form is fun though :)

So replys would be great! :D

[dafreedomfita]

he can still create it in his mind, right?

[RealEros1]

@dafreedomfita Yet due to his blindness,deafness,

and lack of writing his mind would be void.

So even thinking wouldn't work.

[dafreedomfita]

disagree

[dafreedomfita]

Can a blind, death mute, who cannot write create poetry?

[MrCropper]

@dafreedomfita nope

[NayrNitsuj]

Structure is the most important of all things...is it not? Maybe all the people that disagree are just from broken homes and refuse to deal with their own underlying issues related to structure...

[laxhockey22889]

Carl Sandburg is easily a better poet than you, and he didn't rhyme in all of his poems. Rhythm and meter are important, and rhyming can serve rhythm and meter, but it is not necessary. You're a dick.

[johnharrison22]

Not True. Poetry does not have to rhyme.

[pirolas03]

hi im not a student unlike the most of you commenting so pardon my english for the simple reason i only lived in england for 2 years,my question to you all humm i just would like to know whats ur opinion on rap i write music so what do you think of rap??please reply to me many thankx jose.

[psychonaut33]

I agree but poetry does not have to ryme freee form

[Alaricelgrande]

Please forgive my english, thank you.

[Alaricelgrande]

He told me that good verses don't make poetry, almost anybody can write good verses with a little tecnique(he was talking about my poems).

He said that a poem has to have three principal attributes:

-Auditory

-Significant

-Visual

These attributes must be there to call a poem really a poem, regardless of the writing style used.

[Alaricelgrande]

The long and tortuous conflict between free poetry and metric poetry, or i don´t know how you call it in english since i mostly write spanish poetry. Metric includes consonant and assonant rhyme. Neruda uses metric with assonant rhimes a lot.

A great poet told me that you have to become an expert in metric before attempting to write free poetry.

[monsterhash33]

If the concern of poetry was idealistic or philosophical....then it would be no different then prose; which oftentimes employs curious expressions, or rhetorical ornament, to facilitate it's expression. Therefor poetry must be different, and the most practical difference, and therefor, most practical definition for it, is any text that employs either meter, rhyme, or both.

[trock122]

I totally totally totally disagree. Poetry don't have to rhyme. If readers, the audience, and poets only focus on the struture of poetry rather than the poem, then they are missing out what the message is giving, meaning they are missing out the purpose of the poem and poetry itself.

Yes, poets use rhyme and meter to make it sound sweet in the ear. But the purpose of rhyme and meter is a way to write a poem to enable to get what the author/poet is saying.

[justme3073]

I agree. I love how words fit. I had this one English class and it came to poems and we had to write poems but the teacher said that it MUST NOT rime! It was torture... I would write a line and find a word so fitting for it and so perfect and I couldn't put it...