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WTF Is... A Poem?!
Hi, bit of a strange question that I'd rather appreciate answering really. I tried asking in my English Literature class, but everyone just laughed at me; which was embarrassing to say the least since I'm the best poet in the class, possibly school- having won a few competitions I've bothered to enter ... Yet, I wasn't granted an answer.
So, my question is what actually makes up a poem? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you and have a good day :D
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What actually makes up a poem?
A person makes up a poem..
Understanding what you wrote makes up a poem..
Putting your heart into writing down how you
truly feel can make up a poem. Honestly anything in mind can make up a poem, but not all poems rhyme.
: ) Its what's in your heart that counts.
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Poetry is tough to define, largely because it's is defined primarily in OPPOSITION to prose.
Prose is the simple, straightforward language of common use to share facts and information. "The key is under the mat. Dinner is ready. The window is open."
Poetry is everything - and anything - else.
It's an art form which uses the aesthetic qualities of language to evoke meaning above or beyond the literal meaning of the words/letters/language.
So what makes up a poem? Usually (although not always or exclusively) words, and always some sort of communicative language, sometimes even a visual or musical language instead of words.
If you start to recognize poetry in that way, you'll realize that much of what say every day is poetry. Text books and newspapers always use prose, but people speak in a mix of poetry and prose.
Of course, lots of theories have been in vogue over the centuries of 'what makes a poem'. Aristotle laid out three specific genres of poetry, and rules to how it should be written and for what purpose in 300 BCE - and it was considered the hard and fast rules for a long time. Many other definitions of what 'makes a poem' have been thought up, and even been popular for a time, but none of them successfully defined the art form.
Personally, I've always preferred Coleridge's definition of poetry as the closest to a complete definition, he said:
"Poetry is the best words in their best order."
Anything more than that is just subtypes and genres.
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A poem is different to all, it could be expressing thoughts or feelings/emotions to someone or just work to another. To you to make up a poem, u may only need a few happy things and you got it. For me something that makes up a poem is a lesson learned about your life with out sraight forward saying it. It's hard to answer this, but I tryed my best. Best wishes to you, good luck
Xoxo
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