Poetry is vital language. Poetry relies on the writer's feelings, history and perceptions, so every person has the background needed to write poems. Because poetry draws on the senses and the senses give deep access to memories and feelings, poetry writing is relevant and interesting.

Poetry is ancient. The most primitive peoples have
used it, and the most civilized have cultivated it. In all ages and in all countries, poetry has been written and eagerly read or listened to by all kinds and
conditions of people by statesmen, lawyers,
farmers, doctors, scientists, clergymen,
philosophers, soldiers, kings and queens.

In all ages, poetry has been regarded as important,
not simply for pleasure, but as something central to
each individual's existence, something of unique value, and something which makes us feel better off for having and which we are spiritually impoverished without.

Initially, poetry might be defined as a language that says more and says it more intensely than does ordinary language. In order to understand this fully, we need to understand what it is that poetry says.

Poetic language is employed on different occasions to say quite different kinds of things. Therefore, poetry is language of different uses. While novels, short stories and plays bring us a sense and a perception of life, their concern is with experience.

The poet may create new experiences for the reader in which the reader can participate and which will give him or her a greater awareness and understanding of the world.

Poetry is the literary vehicle which is not only an aid to living but a means of living. For example, an encyclopedia can offer information on elephants. You can discover where they live, what they eat and how they breed. This information is only for practical purposes only. You can grasp the ivory of the elephant, but not its soul. The encyclopedia will not touch on its majesty, wild grandeur, strength or power. The poem can turn the elephant from a museum specimen into the highest concrete visual image that comes alive in the mind of the reader. For the living elephant, we must turn to poetry.

Poetry takes all life as its province. Its primary concern is not with beauty, not with philosophical truth, not with persuasion, but with experience.

Beauty and philosophical truth are aspects of experience, and the poet is often engaged with them. Poetry as a whole is concerned with all kinds of experience beautiful & ugly, strange & common, noble & ignoble, actual & imaginary.

One of the paradoxes of human existence is that all
experience, when transmitted through the medium
of art, becomes enjoyable. Even painful experience is pleasurable when poetry romanticizes hard labour, poverty and even death.

Poetry comes to us bringing life, and focuses on giving us a better understanding of life. Between poetry and other genres of literature there is one sharp distinction. Poetry writing is a friend to all writers. Engrossing and honest, poetry extends universally to all members of society. Poetry exists to communicate significant experience imaginatively and creatively, deepening our knowledge of the senses more poignantly.

Poetry can be inspirational on the highest level, when it provides the reader with a precious affair, frequently incandescent, giving off both light and heat. Finally, poetry is a kind of multi-dimensional language. It is directed at the whole person, not just at his understanding. It must involve the reader's senses, intelligence, emotions and imagination.

Poetry achieves its extra dimensions per word by employing devices including metaphor, allusion, sound, repetition, rhythm, irony, symbol, connotation and imagery. Using these resources and the materials of life, poetry, in its highest form, comes alive on the page.

Sobur Lekan Adedokun

laykorn:
Ireneony, Brandnew2, joseph1832 and standd, oyya come and read oooo .
Ayamlaykorn

AfricanApple:
plus herald9

joseph1832:
I believe every field of study is important and has a specific role to play in our everyday lives. To me its all about balance, for without balance, chaos is bound to ensue.

Laykorn if you watch movies try and watch 'The Philosophers'. You'll understand and get deep insight about why having different field of study is so important!.

Japhet04:
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AfricanApple:
plus herald9

laykorn:

Lol. Herald9, you too come and read wo!
Emyben, join us too. Abeg
Ayamlaykorn

Una wicked o...I almost finished that guy before una wake me

Mah go finish am brb


#sleeps

herald9:

Poetry is purely for entertainment... Just like music...shea music is 'advanced' poetry sef... not naija own o

It's just for relaxing your mind or making you think deep...Unfortunately, poetry can't solve any of the world's problem...just like music, you can use poems to call people's attention to that particular thing...and That's all...

Another thing is...poetry doesn't have a universal language... If you translate it from one language to another, it looses it's form and meaning...

And some poems are damn hard to decipher

Meanwhile science is a broad subject...I don't even need to elucidate... you can see the wonders of science all around you...

So poetry is just another form of entertainment...
Science is serious business

laykorn:

Lol. If Hitler had read poems, the World Wars would never have happened.
Ayamlaykorn

Who said so oo... Do you know whether he gained inspirations from the poems written for Napoleon and his various victories in battles?

laykorn:

Lol. If Hitler had read poems, the World Wars would never have happened.
Ayamlaykorn

texanomaly:


Hitler did read and write poetry.

laykorn:

Really
Let me do a search. I need to read his poems
Ayamlaykorn

texanomaly:
The Mother

“When your mother has grown older,
When her dear, faithful eyes
no longer see life as they once did,
When her feet, grown tired,
No longer want to carry her as she walks -

Then lend her your arm in support,
Escort her with happy pleasure.
The hour will come when, weeping, you
Must accompany her on her final walk.

And if she asks you something,
Then give her an answer.
And if she asks again, then speak!
And if she asks yet again, respond to her,
Not impatiently, but with gentle calm.

And if she cannot understand you properly
Explain all to her happily.
The hour will come, the bitter hour,
When her mouth asks for nothing more.”

Adolf Hitler, 1923

OMA4U:
Laykorn, three words for you: God bless you.

With a critical look, Poetry is as important as Science. No condescension!

texanomaly:
As he walks from house to house
Knocking on strangers' doors
With his oak mandolin
Playing his simple song.
And in his song, in his song
Pure as the radiance of the sun
Grand Truth can be heard
Of lofty sublime dreams.
The hearts that turned into stone
Are forced to beat once more
For many he ignited Reason
That once slumbered on in Darkness.
But instead of bestowing on him glory
The people of his land
Brought the outcast
Poison in a cup.
They told him "Damn you!
Drink! Drain it to the bottom
Your song is strange to us
Your truth we do not need."

~Joseph Stalin

texanomaly:


Hitler did read and write poetry.

Brandnew2:
I am sorry Laykorn. The last time I conversed with you was like a waste of time. I don't intend to get involved in such anymore.

standd:


@Brandnew2...This is not nice...pls apologize

@Texanomaly...It is common knowledge that POETS don't live their POEMS. I for one can write a sizzling love poem, sitting lone and grumpy in my room That Hitler writes, only points to a certain level of intelligence which manifested in horrible dimensions.

BTW Laykorn, I don't know what the tussle is all about, saying poetry is more important than Science is like saying the mouth is more important than the nose. I am a Physicist who loves and know Physics and Mathematics yet Poetry comes naturally to me. I did not learn poetry or how to write them; I just write. IMO, no subject is more important than the other. They are parts of a whole.

Good morning Guys

MrPresident1:
Poetry is more important than science kwa? Odiegwu.

Like saying E=mc2 is less important than twinkle twinkle little star, right? That's what you mean, right?

Lordmykel:
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