What is Poetry?

[Ambessa Negassi]

Expressive economy - Poets can say a lot with just a few carefully chosen words. Dense with multiple layers of meaning, poetry uses brevity and conciseness to deliver thoughts and emotions in a concentrated way.

[Ambessa Negassi]

Evocative imagery - Vivid sensory details and visuals allow readers to not just comprehend the poem intellectually but visualize and experience its images and scenes. Great poetry sparks the imagination.

[Ambessa Negassi]

Emotional resonance - Whether conveying love, grief, joy, or any intense human experience, poetry moves past facts and surface details to tap into deeper universal human emotions and experiences. It communicates subjective impressions vs objective realities.

[Ambessa Negassi]

While poetry has many forms and genres, at its core it is writing that utilizes artistic elements like concentrated imagery, rhyme, rhythm, figures of speech and other sonic qualities to create beautiful, eloquent, and emotionally resonant literary art.

[Ambessa Negassi]

More than just admiring words on a page, poetry is meant to be read aloud and felt at a visceral level. Seriously, when I talk about poetry, I am transported to another world.

[Eisha Gohar]

Undefined words

[Amoha123]

Poetry is a type of short story telling. It is similar to song which is but the main difference between it is that it is short written store. For example. Poetry of Lakshmi Bai which tells the whole history of Rani of Jhansi.

[The Keeper Jr]

Do you know What the poem is, a pearl from the Sea of Wisdom

The poet of that enchantment is the side of a hard pearl

There is industry and rhyme which is a Nazm but not poetry

Oh, the Naazim, whose Nazm is nothing but idle talk

The poem should rise from the heart and boil on the lips

Then it should sit in the hearts again, wherever it is heard

Oh many are great poets, who did not create Nazm in their life

And Oh many are a Naazim for they never wrote a poem in their life

Info: Nazm is a Persian word which is what we call a writing that has order, words that rhyme with each other.
and Naazim is the person who creates nazm.

This poem was written by a Persian Poet known as Mohammad Taqi Bahar. The original form is in Persian but this is just the translated version.
He simply explains to other people of his time ( Who claimed to be very good at Poetry) what poetry actually is. In this Poem, he mentions the fact that creating words that rhyme with each other (Nazm) isn't just a poem. Instead, it's more than that. A piece that carries emotions from one heart to another and it contains wisdom...

[pragatibansal]

poetry is arrived from poet. a poet who opens his/her heart to express word in a poem. poem is combination of feelings. which are very emotionl.

[Josué Kamba Tshilobo]

an expression that cannot do without the power of language

[Josué Kamba Tshilobo]

an expression that cannot do without the power of language.

[Mashington]

Poetry is difficult to structure but easy to feel.
I think for something to be poetic it must first move me, then make sense. Most everything else makes sense then moves me.

Its like a dance to a drumbeat. Poetry is the dance and the beat.

[Samuel Falle]

Poetry is the creation of creative lines and rhymes and it can be through emotion with verses.

[Bron Bakers]

Poetry is an art that uses rhymes to teach people about certain things. Poetry can be used for anything.

[Sampaio]

Sometimes poetry is anger, sometimes it is love, sometimes it is just a conversation or an outburst and sometimes it is just words to yourself, in all its forms there is only one certainty, poetry is the soul and the soul is lovely.