what is poetry

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Comparing the French Poets

Antony Bush said : to me poetry is an expression of self thought . It would seem then that poetry a personal journey that a poet shares with a willing audience . This journey through the poet 's ego or consciousness is what allows poetry to be dynamic , enigmatic , and provocative . Poetry then isn 't a way in which a poet can complain about a broken heart or a broken family but a way in which they can more vividly and

truthfully express their surrounding circumstance and place metaphor in the place of clichy . For instance , instead of saying `my heart is broken ' a poet can say `my heart splinters into a thousand galaxies ' thereby relating their personal pain into a more worldly occurrence and thus making the poem accessible to their audience

The aim of poetry then is to make readers feel more human when they read lines like We flit each other , fluid affectionate , chaste matured . You grew up with me , were a boy with me or a girl with me ' in which Walt Whitman expresses to his reader how he knows them - and in knowing them he transcends time , gender , and space thereby making the reader a little less lonely . That is the goal of poetry , to make people feel less lonely , to have them feel as if someone else has felt their love , joy , pain and grief and made it through these human emotions - it gives the...