In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral, because we become acquainted with poetry through nursery rhymes, which we hear before we can read.
As long as there's been poetry, there have been lamentations.
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 one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.
Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell.