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* * Poetry Tone and Speaker Prose Fiction vs. Poetry All that applies to prose more or less applies to poetry; Difference between prose fiction and poetry: Form: most poems are in the form of separate lines and stanza Rhyme and rhythm: most traditional poems have rhymes and rhythms, with a set number of syllables arranged in feet in each line and with words that end each line patterned in a certain rhyme scheme Reading/reading aloud: poems are to be read aloud Poems appeal very much to emotions Poems use language in a special way that requires careful reading to figure out the intended logic, meaning, reason, emotion What is poetry? Poetry is indefinable: There are as many definitions of poetry as there are poets. Wordsworth: the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. Emily Dickenson : If I read a book and it makes my body so cold no fire ever can warm me, I know that is poetry; Dylan Thomas: Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing.“ Robert Frost: “A poem begins with a lump in the throat, a home-sickness or a love-sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; ... A complete poem is one where the emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words. Usual way of defining poetry A short piece of imaginative writing, of a personal nature and laid out in lines A poem is a written expression of emotion or ideas in an arrangement of words/verse most often rhythmically On the appearance, a poem consists of words arranged in lines of verse. Poetry is a kind of “saying,” which many people, until they are well acquainted with it, feel rather peculiar and even useless. Poetry is a response to, and an evaluation of, our experience of the objective, bustling world and of our ideas about it. Poetry is concerned with the world as responded to sensorially, emotionally, and intellectually. How to read poems