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what is poetry
Title: what is poetry
Category: Literature / English
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what is poetry
What is Poetry?
What is poetry? What is a poem? How can you tell the difference between poetry
and prose?
I usually try to provide a defintion, knowing that the definition is little more
than a simplified starting point for this elusive and irresistible genre. I
developed this one collaboratively with my colleague at TCC, Stan Barger, who
team-taught English 112 with me several summers:
Poetry is the concentrated, rhythmic, verbal expression of observations,
perceptions, and …showed first 75 words of 2854 total…
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Gerard Manley Hopkins, "God's Grandeur")
nonmetrical cadences
Free Verse (open form): Free verse has predecessors in the nonmetrical rhythms
of Greek poetry, the cadences of the King James Bible Psalms, Milton's poetry;
however, the true groundbreaker for free verse rhythms was America's Walt
Whitman in the nineteenth century
Some Familiar Fixed (Closed) forms
Sonnet
Villanelle
"Venus and Adonis" stanza: ABABCC (see Puritan poetry)
Closed couplets
Terza rima: ABA BCB CDC ("Acquainted with the Night")
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