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I just read an interesting article by Mike Ladd entitled “What Is Poetry Anyway?”

In the article, he recounts how his friend asked him to define poetry. The article offers several short quotes from famous poets attempting to define poetry. My favorite is Robert Frost’s “poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and thought has found words.”

I like the article, but after reading it I do not feel that it has defined poetry. Of course, the author makes a point of the difficulty of defining poetry, and he does express what qualities he likes to see poetry have.

What do you think? How would you define poetry?

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What do you think?

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