Poems and Songs

Poetry is one used to crystallize our emotional responses to life and ideas. Many writers choose poetry as a way of exploring human experience.

Human beings naturally respond to patterns in language which appeal to the sense, the imagination and the emotions, it is hard to define what poetry is but we have poetry in our human repertoire because we need to use language to express our imagination and our emotion. Poetry draws on the human imagination to express loss, to express love, to explore ideas and to put forward point of view.

Many people claim that they are not interested in poetry but this may be because they are thinking of just a narrow category of 'poetry'- something studied at school, or something remote and inaccessible. The most common source of poetry today is probably in song lyrics.

New Horizon
Song and Poetry
Some writers believe that poetry has its origins in song. Most of the characteristics that distinguish it from other forms of utterance– rhythm, rhyme, compression, intensity of feeling, the use of refrains–appear to have come about from efforts to fit words to musical forms.

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