My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
It's not easy to define poetry.
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.
What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
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