Alex's Poetry Page
"Poetry is when an emotion has
found its thought and the thought has found words" - Robert
Frost
"Poetry is the music of the soul..." - Voltaire
"Poetry is closer to vital truth than history." - Plato
"Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry." - W.B. Yeats
"Poetry is all nouns and verbs." - Marianne Moore
"Poetry, like the moon, does not advertise anything." - William Blissett
While categories are always abhorrently limiting, here are some common historal periods of poetry to start with:
Also some common forms:
Honors Program Webpage
Shakespeare Rendition
Awesome audio editing skillz
"Poetry is the music of the soul..." - Voltaire
"Poetry is closer to vital truth than history." - Plato
"Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry." - W.B. Yeats
"Poetry is all nouns and verbs." - Marianne Moore
"Poetry, like the moon, does not advertise anything." - William Blissett
Poetry
is always poetry, but as mankind has traversed more lands, discovered
and become bored of this and that, and rearranged their priorities,
poetry has changed as well. It shifts as when the world rotates around
the sun or water rushes down a river; it is the same and different
simultaneously.
While categories are always abhorrently limiting, here are some common historal periods of poetry to start with:
Also some common forms:
Honors Program Webpage
Shakespeare Rendition
Awesome audio editing skillz