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Poetry As A Form Of Poetry

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Poetry (means something made or created) is an art form in which the human language is additionally used for its aesthetic qualities, or instead of its fictional and semantic content. It consists essentially of oral or literary works, in which language is used, so that its users and the audience feel that they differ from the ordinary prose.
It may use condensed or compressed form to convey emotion or ideas to the reader's or listener's mind or ear; it may also use devices such as assonance and repetition to achieve musical or incantatory effects. Poems frequently rely for their effect on imagery, word association, and the musical qualities of the language used.
According to Wordsworth “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquility gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind” (cited by Kneale, 1986, p.266). Robert Frost (1923) “A poem begins with a lump in the throat, a home-sickness or a love-sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where the emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words”.
In poetry, we use language to talk about our world experience, including our inner world, which describes events, states, and an organization
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