Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more.
Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for images and statements to operate in a single space and resonate powerfully without the application to be elaborated upon and narrated.
I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.
I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.