APA SIH ITU POETRY ENGLISH SUBJECT

What Is Poetri

Poetry is as universal as language and almost as ancient. The most primitive peoples have used it, and the most civilized have cultivated it. In all age, and in all countries, poetry has been written _ and eagerly read or listened to _ by all kinds and conditions of people, by soldier, statesmen, lawyers, farmer, doctor, scientists, clergymen, philosophers, kings, and queens. In all ages it has been especially the concers of the educated, the intelegent, and the sensitive, and  it has appealed, in its simpler forms, to the uneducated and to children. Poetry has given pleasure. People have read it or listened to it or recited it because they like it, because it gave them enjoyment.

Poetry in all ages has been regarded as importent , not simply as one of several alternative forms of amusement, as one men might choose bowling, another chess, and another poetry. Rather, it has been regared as something central to each man’s existance, something having unique value to the fully realized life, something that he is better off for having and spritually impoverished without. To understand the reason for this , we need to have at least a provisional understanding of what poetry is-provisional , because man has always more succesful at appreciating poetry than at defining it.

Poetry might be defined as a kind of language that says more and says it more intensely then does ordinary language. In order to understand this fully, we need to understand what it is that poetry “says. “ for language is employed on different to say quite different kinds of things; in other word, language has different uses.perhaps the commenest use of language is to communication information.

Poetry is not primarily to communicate information that novels and short stories and plays and poems are written. These exist to bring us a sense and perception of life, to widen and sharpen our contacts with existance. Their concern is with experience. We all have an inner need to live more deeply and fully and with greater awareness, to know the experience of other and to know better our own experience.

The poetry from his own store of felt, observed,  or imagined experiences,selects, combines, and reorganizes. He creates significant new experience for the reader – significant because focused and formed – in which the reader can participate and thet he may use to give him a greater awareness and understanding of his world.

For instance, that we are intersted in eangles. If we want simply to acquire information about eangles, we may turn to an enclopedia or book of natural history. For the living eangle we must turn to literature.

Literature, than exist to communicate significant experience- significant because concerated and organized. Its function is not to tell us about experience but to allow us imaginatively to participate in it. It is mean of allowing us, through the imagination, to live more fully, more deeply, more richly, and with greater awareness.

Two false approaches often taken to poetry can be avoided if we keep this conception of literature firmly in mind. The first approach always looks for lesson or bit of moral intruction. The second expects to find poetry always beautiful.

Poetry takes all life as its province. Its primary concern is not with beauty , not with philosophical truth, not with persuation, but with experience. When person reads a poem and not experience is transmitted , either the poem is not a good poem or the reader is a poor reader or not properly tuned. With new poetry , we cannot always be sure which is at fault. With older poetry , if it has acquired critical acceptance  - has been enjoyed by generation of good reader  - we may assume that the receiving set is at fault. Fortunatly, the fault is not irremediable.

Poetry, finnaly, is a kind of multidimensional.ordinary language – the kind we use to communicate information – is one- dimensional. Poetry , which is language used to communicate experience , has at least four dimensions. Poetry, to the intelectual dimensions, adds a sensuous dimensions, an emotional dimensions, and imaginative dimensions.succesful poetry is effusive language.