The Meanings of Poetry

[cacian]

What kind of poetry do you like?
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If you could dedicate a very short verse of poetry right now who would it be to and what would it say?

[MorpheusSandman]

Writing poetry is my one creative outlet. I've art and creativity since I was a kid and poetry is really the only medium I feel that I have any natural affinity for. As far as reading poetry, I tend to take a very intellectual approach to it, though I know for most others it's more of an emotional thing. I love music and film as much as poetry, but I've often felt that music appeals to my emotions the most, poetry to my intellect, while film is more equally split between those poles. As far as dedicating a short verse, I would do it if I were in the mood for it, but I'm not right now, so I don't really know how to answer that...

[cacian]

Writing poetry is my one creative outlet. I've art and creativity since I was a kid and poetry is really the only medium I feel that I have any natural affinity for. As far as reading poetry, I tend to take a very intellectual approach to it, though I know for most others it's more of an emotional thing. I love music and film as much as poetry, but I've often felt that music appeals to my emotions the most, poetry to my intellect, while film is more equally split between those poles. As far as dedicating a short verse, I would do it if I were in the mood for it, but I'm not right now, so I don't really know how to answer that...

How does poetry appeal intellectually?
I find poetry opens door to hidden meanings and allow for the mind to toy with words.
Short stories are more restrictive because people expect a beginning and end. Poetry however can start with a line and end on a whim and still tell a little tale. It is a bit like a short circuit quick and effective. It is also easy to memorise. Peotry does wonder for memory and long term stimulative thoughts. I like speculative poetry. It is more engaging.

[osho]

Poetry is something that penetrates deeper and deeper and of course it has to do with the intellect thing but to write poetry without a dose of emotion is likened to travel to a land of snow without being soaked. Emotion flows from poetry and it does spontaneously and you cannot undo it or not - do it. It is there all the time though it flows out volcanically at times and like a rivulet steadily, at times under the riverbed and at times over it.

Can you name any poetry totally drained of emotion? T. S. Eliot, even Alexander Pope or Dryden, their poems are profusely parceled in emotional quotients. Poetry can flow without intellect but to write a poem without emotion is to think about a flower with no color. You can have a penciled flower, black and white but in nature flowers have colors and fragant

[JBI]

How does poetry appeal intellectually?
I find poetry opens door to hidden meanings and allow for the mind to toy with words.
Short stories are more restrictive because people expect a beginning and end. Poetry however can start with a line and end on a whim and still tell a little tale. It is a bit like a short circuit quick and effective. It is also easy to memorise. Peotry does wonder for memory and long term stimulative thoughts. I like speculative poetry. It is more engaging.

Some people think poetry is about meaning. The meaning is rather limited to the tropes of culture. Everybody shares the same states of emotion after all. The art is how the poem means. And by extension how the poet uses the medium to express the universal.

That is what separates the Shakespesre from the other tens of thousands of sonnet writers. The poems say the same conventional things, but do so in a unique and explorative way.

[MorpheusSandman]

How does poetry appeal intellectually?It can get you thinking about concepts and themes and the methods by which those things are communicated. That's probably too vague, but probably the best I can do at the moment.