Comments on: Poetry is ______________

By: Jed

Jed — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:45:43 +0000

what we are left with when only our voices remain.

It carries our words as well as our empty spaces.

It belongs to me. And is freely offered to you.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:12:39 +0000

…like a vague story. It doesn’t need to get to the point, or even have a decisive point for that matter. Different people can have different interpretations; that is the beauty of poetry. Poetry should invoke emotions, it should be said out loud for it to truely flow. It should sound good so that the words are just as important as how they are said.

By: Mr Kitching

Mr Kitching — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:39:32 +0000

Poetry happens when exciting and emotional people say what they mean with no regard for grammar, syntax or punctuation. Scientists do this all the time, but then of course they are neither exciting nor emotional.

By: Mr. Quale

Mr. Quale — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:07:53 +0000

I’m currently reading a book where Ginsberg describes the type of poetry that he tries to teach to his students:

“Poetry out of mind, in spontaneous and unrevised utterances. . . as in first thought, best thought.”

This reminds me a little of two of Kerouac’s “rules” for his spontaneous prose:

11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better

By: Shruti

Shruti — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:03:07 +0000

Poetry is art; full of imagination, creativity; someone’s feelings or personal encounters or even a made-up story; it’s one’s thought process in words.

By: Mons

Mons — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:50:54 +0000

Poetry is the oral translation of feelings and emotions that can make you think, laugh, happy, sad, angry, confused, etc. Poetry is never an instruction, maybe a suggestion, but in reality any oral thought meant to cause emotion, thought and feeling.

By: Marina

Marina — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:46:11 +0000

…artistic and expressive writing that uses rhythm and emotion to stir the reader’s imagination.

By: Katarina

Katarina — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:14:53 +0000

…putting your feelings and thoughts on paper. You use poetry as a tool to express yourself, when you have difficulties saying those things to others.

By: Mr. Quale

Mr. Quale — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:18:34 +0000

Columns of breath and Neil Young songs and old timey ballads and the words that are spoken and sonnets and stories told by juglares and contributions of verse and simple chants and ancient arts and emotions (both tranquil and aggressive) and corridos and western haikus and Mexico City blues and waste lands and howls and confessions and digressions and pronunciations–I’m with Borges: poetry remembers that it was first a song.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:43:09 +0000

…is the expression of ones inner most thoughts put in to a form that tells a story. Poetry is vague because it forces the reader to form their own thoughts and theories about the topic.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:53:28 +0000

…Something that must make the reader realize something. It may be something different from what the authour is trying to put across, or it may take the reader years to see the authour’s point. But the fact of the matter is that poetry is trying to put a message across…no mater how vague or clear, important or unsignificant it may be.

By: Lucy

Lucy — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:26:08 +0000

…something that may portray a different meaning to the poet as to the reader, but what ever you you take away from it can be correct. It can be beauty, anger, jealousy, love etc even all of them in one. Sometimes it can have a hidden meaning only the poet knows, or it can be complete nonsense, but its all poetry.

By: Fraser

Fraser — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:06:12 +0000

…like just normal words on a piece of paper but then is transformed once you put emotional and your thoughts into it.

By: Maria

Maria — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:46:02 +0000

… like a work of art, that paints a picture in your mind and tells you a story that needs to be told. A poet shows you the emotions through the words of the poetry and wants you to either laugh or cry with him.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:49:25 +0000

…something a regular person wouldn’t find interesting, but appeals on so many levels to anyone else, it’s something that’s meant to be read aloud and analysed in an atempt to find it’s true meaning.