Poetry is a form of literary art that uses rhythmic, aesthetic, and often metaphorical language to evoke deep emotional, imaginative, or sensory responses. It concentrates language to convey intense thought or imagery.
Poets” definition of poetry
- Emily Dickinson: «If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry».
- Matthew Arnold: «A criticism of life».
- Ezra Pound: «Poetry is about as much a “criticism of life” as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire».
- Gerard Manley Hopkins: «Speech framed… to be heard for its own sake and interest even over and above its interest of meaning».
- Wallace Stevens: «A revelation of words by means of the words».
- T.S. Eliot: «Not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality».
- Robert Frost: «Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words».
- William Wordsworth: «The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity»
