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(a) Poetry is rhythmic
In Thinking and Destiny , Harold W. Percivaldefined rhythm as the character and meaning of thought expressed through the measure or movement in sound or form, or by written signs or words Percival 1946,

rhythm is fundamental to poetry, it cannot be dismissed with some simple formula such as “Rhythm is hypnotic and produces hyperæsthesia” or “Metrical patterns express social norms.” The significance of rhythm ishistoricaland at any given time depends upon the unfolding of society’s basic contradiction in language.

B. Poetry is composed of words
we can say poetry is written with words in a way the novel is not, without meaning that a special magic inheres in the sound-symbol or black mark that objectively is the word. In fact the word stimulates in addition to the idea an affective “glow,” of such a character that it cannot be carried over by translation.
Indeed " A poem is the very image of life expressed in its external truth.”.
C. Poetry is non-symbolic
What do we mean when we say words are symbolic, that is, symbols and nothing else? We mean that the words themselves are nothing, we are not interested in them, but in what they refer to. [1]Thus when a mathematician writeseight plus nine equals seventeen, he is not interested in the words themselves, but in the ordering of certain generalised classes encountered in empirical reality.
Poetry is clotted social history, the emotional sweat of man’s struggle with Nature.
Poetry is concrete.
But poetry is like scientific argument, it is “impure.” Its emotions are attached to real objects and this gives them a cert
But poetry is like scientific argument, it is “impure.” Its emotions are attached to real objects and this gives them a certain peculiarity. Reality hovers in the ego’s vision. This means that poetry is concrete and particularised, just as scientific argument is concrete and particularised, although of course in each case the concretion and generality refers to different spheres of reality.

d. Poetry is characterised by condensed effects

These effects are the effects proper to it, that is to say, aesthetic effects. A telegram, “Your wife died yesterday,” may impart extraordinarily condensed effects to the reader of it, but these are not of course aesthetic effects. Here the language is used symbolically.

Poetry is sweet
I will explain dis @ Missmossy's crib

All dis makes poetry different from drama and Erm

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Poetry is written in stanzas unlike prose and drama which are written in chapters...
It's has rhythmic pattern and syllables...
poetry doesn't obey rules of language...those poets can twist the hell out of a language just to achieve their purpose...
And the diction in some poems are difficult to understand unlike other genres which are plain and straightforward...

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