But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
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.
Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.
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.
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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.
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.