Is there a place for poetry in your life? Apart from your educational context, when and where do you come into contact with poetry?
2007-10-31 20:58:36 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
I come in contact with the conventional form of poetry like Shakespeare and Maya Angelou very rarely in my life.
The thing that makes poetry so unique is that it is a way of writing that is very loose, flexible. So, what I don't like about this question is that it limits poetry to the conventional kind of poems we get in "educational contexts": sonnets, haikus, something with a rhyme scheme; doing this goes against one of the core tenets of poetry. All of these are structures for a way of expressing and a way of writing. More important than the structure, I think what makes poems poems is that they are expressions, trying to relate something that is beautiful or some feelings that the author had.
Whenever you are trying to express how you feel, trying to explain what's going on in your head, or trying to express the beauty you see in a puppy crawling it's way to food, you're being poetic.
On a less poetic note, song lyrics are a form of poetry. We come in contact with them all the time.
2007-10-31 21:52:02 · answer #1 · answered by Weos 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyday, everywhere. You cannot escape poetry unless you're a martian or ET. Don't you listen to music! don't you listen to radio or TV? Don't you sing some tunes/notes when doing the dishes or laundry! Don't you come across these kinds of patterned/rhythmical responses on Y/A poetry!
Poetry is all around us if you know how to hearken to its blissful tempo!
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2007-11-01 05:43:50 · answer #2 · answered by ari-pup 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My grandmother, who died in 1938, wrote poetry and I have copies of some of her poems. I started writing poetry in high school and continue to this day. It isn't very good, at least I don't think so, but I have a friend who writes music and he's in the process of setting one of my poems to music and I am hoping to get Tanya Tucker to record it!!!
2007-11-01 10:16:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My sixth grade teacher started me writing poetry
in 1939. I now have about a thousand poems
and many years working with poetry groups.
2007-11-01 04:36:36 · answer #4 · answered by oldbob 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a walking poem. I don't see anything at face value. Altimeter reads a negative number.
2007-11-01 09:25:22 · answer #5 · answered by TD Euwaite? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
idk
2007-11-01 07:40:09 · answer #6 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋