What is poetry to you?

Question

Freedom of Speech expressing yourself freely writing down pain,strife from inside, letting the reader know how you feel
showing yourself the inside of you.

Answer 1

I think most poets start off with writing down how they feel, what they think, what they are going through. It's direct and a bit on the nose. But as the poet moves through their lives, they learn to focus outside of themselves and to look at things and explore, this then allows them to express their perspective and at that stage they begin to connect with a much larger set of readers.

Given that opening statement, I think poetry is conveyance. It is the ART of communicating without bluntly telling someone something.

Do well.

Answer 2

Poetry to me is an understanding that a writer has as much control of a word just as a painter has choice of brushstroke, or a composer choice of musical note.

The more masterfully these elements are combined to form meaning and convey emotion, the more masterful the resulting composition is regarded.

Answer 3

Poetry for me is a journey or an adventure. it allows me to see that which I have not seen though someones eyes. Poetry isn't just the words written but it's the interpretation the reader gains from filling in those images in the mind that let's the imagination soar.

"Looking down on to the trees"
"What breathless sight I wish you could see."

Answer 4

Poetry is communication. Just as prose describes, or tells us things, poetry tries to express or show us things that are often abstract or defy definition...which probably explains why so much of it deals with love and the human condition. When you can't look directly at something, but you can describe the way it makes you feel, or how you react to it, you need something that is more than the sum of its parts, something that can convey abstractions...that's where poetry comes in. Love, life, anger, frustration, beauty, good, evil, joy, fear...are all intangible that frustrate the writers of dictionaries and translators, yet every one of those have been illustrated by images and situations presented by poetry. Without poetry, we'd only be able to describe what we see...a two dimensional representation of what is already obvious...where poetry is the soul (another intangible) putting emotional dimension to life (another intangible). A world without poetry is a world without depth, feeling, emotion...all the intangibles that make us appreciate sentience.

Answer 5

I think poetry is anything that You consider not a note. But it has to come from the heart and really get people thinking about what you mean or get people thinking more than one thing that something deals with. It can be a story but be written with heart.

Answer 6

poetry... is a day at the nude beach with all your best pals.
poetry is wrestling at sunset with your best mate.. and ending up clothes-less in a field.

Answer 7

Its exactly what you say a way to release whats troubling me and speak my mind!