What does poetry mean to you?
We all have our own definitions of what poetry is. There is no concrete definition of what’s right in poetry.
To me, poetry is a way to pour my inner thoughts and feelings on paper instead of physically expressing them to others.
What is your definition of poetry?
I agree, but I think there is so much more. I like how Robert Frost defines poetry in his essay “The Figure a Poem Makes”: A poem should end not in a great clarification– that on which cults and relgions are made up of– but rather, a momentary stay against confusion. (Loosely quoted). Needless to say he was writing in the modernist movement, but I think he sums up poetry well. A poem creates a momentary stay of wisdom, a clear definiton of a certain emotion or feeling, that does not last forever but for a breif moment of clarity.
Poetic Pilgrimage feat. Khalfani- Definition of a Pilgrim
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Roget’s Thesaurus Thesaurus – A reference book of synonyms, often including related and contrasting words and antonymsSynonyms – A word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another word or other words in a language.Antonyms – A word having a meaning opposite to that of another word: The word wet is an antonym of the word dry…. |
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Aristophanes and the Definition of Comedy £25.78 This work explores Aristophanes’ comic poetry and is informed by a wide range of theory from Kierkegaard to Adorno, a particular consideration of Aristophanes’ own understanding of his medium, and challenging comparisons with modern literature…. |
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Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition £12.95 … |
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Snapshots from Istanbul (Paperback) $14.8 Sensual, honest, often humorous, and as intimate as a confession, the poems in this volume illuminate the struggle for self-definition and the journey of an exile. Weaving multiple narratives together, this work focuses on the delicate relati… |
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Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary $13.43 Volume 2 of massive work by a leading Shakespeare scholar and lexicographer, a standard in the field, provides full definitions, locations, and shades of meaning in every word in Shakespeare`s plays and poems. The 2 volumes contain more than … |
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Wabi Sabi $10.26 Descriptions of wabi sabi the ancient Japanese aesthetic that finds simple beauty in the impermanence of a chipped vase, or a quiet rainy day are usually found couched in poetry by Japanese philosophers. This book attempts a more practical definition o… |
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Modern Element (Hardcover) $16.95 While writing these 26 essays, each on a poet or group of poets, over the past decade, says New York-based poet and critic Kirsch, he was not contemplating any definition of modernism, but in hindsight, he finds that a concern with the modern element u… |
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Poetry (Paperback) $27.93 Richard Bradford’s new introduction to poetry combines definitions, context and literary theory to addresses and answer the slippery question ‘what is poetry?`. The book provides a compact history of English poetry from the 16th c… |
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Poetry (Hardcover) $68.24 Richard Bradford’s new introduction to poetry combines definitions, context and literary theory to addresses and answer the slippery question ‘what is poetry?`. The book provides a compact history of English poetry from the 16th c… |
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The Challenges of Orpheus $51.43 After settling on a definition of lyric poetry that is at once trans-historical and sensitive to the conditions of time and place, Dubrow (English, U. of Wisconsin-Madison) explores its manifestation during early modern England. Her topics include audi… |
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Poets of Rhythm – Discern/Define [3/16] $9.98 Disc 0:No track list available |
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To Read a Poem $96.97 TO READ A POEM begins the study of poetry by examining whole poems, emphasizing the goal of reading is not the analysis of parts but the understanding of wholes. For a fuller definition of poetry`s elements, later chapters concentrate on parts. Sele |
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Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary $13.43 Full definitions, locations, shades of meaning of every word in plays and poems. More than 50,000 exact quotations. |
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Papalote, papelito $18.49 Gathers brief poetic definitions and longer poems on various subjects. |
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The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets (Paperback) $14.67 The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets gathers the work of thirty–five of the most compelling and talented new poets writing today. Groundbreaking anthologies of this kind come along once in a generation and, in time, define… |
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The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets (Hardcover) $49.95 The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets gathers the work of thirty–five of the most compelling and talented new poets writing today. Groundbreaking anthologies of this kind come along once in a generation and, in time, define… |
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Duino Elegies $9.5 Thus begins the first movement of Rainer Maria Rilke`s DuinoElegies. Started in a period of spiritual crisis in 1912 and completed in a second burst of inspiration in 1922, these ten loosely connected lyrics have come to define the Rilkean sensi |
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Romantic Image $12.32 “In this extremely important book of speculative and scholarly criticism, Mr Kermode is setting out to re-define the notion of the Romantic tradition, especially in relation to English poetry and criticism.” — Times Literary Supplement |
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Conditions of Light (Paperback) $14.78 Putting unprecedented pressure on the line break, Emmanuel Hocquard`s obliquely interlaced poetic series cracks open the facade of language to let a little light through–the glimmers are beyond definition, explication, or even, in a certain way, expre… |
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The Dictionary of Love (Paperback) $12.65 A thumb-tabbed, illustrated compendium of romantic terms and subjects features twenty-six chapters of definitions as culled from a wide variety of sources, from love poems and historical texts to cookbooks and psychology manuals, in a resource that is … |
