Poetry

Poetry Assignments Poetry Notes Poetry Project [|Sonnet 19] Sonnet 15 Poetry Survey What is poetry? Merriam Webster Dictionary's definition of poetry: “Imaginative language or composition, whether expressed rhythmically or in prose. Specifically: Metrical composition; verse; rhyme; poems collectively; as, heroic poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or Pindaric poetry.”

Merriam Webster Dictionary’s Definition of Prose: 1 a : “the ordinary language people use in speaking or writing” b : “a literary medium distinguished from poetry especially by its greater irregularity and variety of rhythm and its closer correspondence to the patterns of everyday speech”

“For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I wish all our clever young poets would remember by homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose equals words in their best order; poetry equals the best words in the best order.” - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.” - John F. Kennedy

“A poem…begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness…It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.” - Robert Frost

“The poem is a confession of faith.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Group Study Guides