Poetry is the art of writing, studying and analyzing poems
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Notes on the Style, Structure, Form and the Content of a Poem
INTRODUCTION TO POETRY What is poetry ? POETRY is the art of writing, studying and analyzing poems. A poem is a written or verbal expression of thought, feelings and emotions which uses lines, stanzas and deliberate arrangement and choice of words as a mode of transmission. Basically, the meaning of a poem is contained in what is called content and form. Understanding the structure and content of a poem. The Content of a poem is what the poem is all about, it’s what the writer wanted us to know or talk about. Content is what is generally referred to as a theme/message . Examples of themes are love, death, war etc. The content of a poem is concerned with the question: What is the poem saying? The form of a poem refers to the general arrangement/ structure of a poem . It is the technique which the poet utilizes to communicate his ideas. It’s the style or the manner of presentation depicted by physical aspects of the poem. The form of a poem is concerned with the question: How is the message conv…
