what the hell is poetry?

answers1: It angry me. Im white and I have tons of black peers and I
see them the identical means I see white persons, that poem used to be
a discrase to every person, black persons too, I wish they trap a few
**** for that too, I cant suppose what I simply noticed, to whoever
you're who mentioned that, **** you you racist ****.
answers2: hey, poetry is usually the poets feeling put into words in a
creative way,im 15 and i write poetry and i started about a year
because i really liked a girl (i'd liked girls before but it felt
different with her) and i started writing them when she rejected me to
get my feelings out for example instead of saying <br>
'your beautiful, i'll love you forever' you could say in a poem <br>
'your beauty stopped time for me <br>
and in my heart you will forever be' <br>
hope this is what you wanted :)
answers3: Well there isn't a certain book out there that marks the
edge of a scale of what is and what isn't poetry. There is a lot of
shades of gray. On a scale, I would say that on one end you have the
written word purely for communication sake. Far from poetry, the only
purpose is to convey information to someone else. As you go towards
the other side of the scale (more towards poetry), you my come across
fiction and essays written with poetic flair. Although not poetry,
they have poetic elements. Namely that the words chosen are selected
not just to convey information, but to elicit specific intended
emotions from the reader. Go further towards more pure poetry and it
becomes less and less about the information of what is being
communicated, and the emotional content delivered by how the words and
sentence form is crafted (what is in-between the words on the page).
The reason there are so many forms of poetry is because there are so
many different ways to elicit emotion through word craft. Sometimes
the structure you are talking about exists because poetry was often in
song form originally (because it predated written word/literacy). It
gained the form from musical stanzas. People continued to use a form
similar so that people would understand that it is poetry, and because
they appreciated tradition. More recently, some people have used no
standard structure to help create the emotional affect they want. It
is a way to ensure that the reader reads it in a certain way to
control the emotional message.
answers4: i'm trying to figure that out to. i hate how teachers give
us these random poems and make us find the meaning behind every line
and sometimes i wonder if there's even a meaning behind any of this
answers5: you shouldn't really look too deep into it. its all about
you feelings or observation on something. you write about anything
that you need to let out about either love or fighting, or the grass
to the clouds, its could be about anything you want! <br>
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- poetry <br>
1.the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting
pleasure by beautiful, <br>
imaginative, or elevated thoughts. <br>
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2.literary work in metrical form; verse. <br>
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3.prose with poetic qualities.
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answers7: complicated matter. lookup over google. this may help!