Poetry
What is Poetry?
"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is prose; words in their best order; - poetry; the best words in the best order."
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toe nails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing, makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world, that your bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all your own."
--Dylan Thomas
"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."
--Emily Dickinson
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toe nails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing, makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world, that your bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all your own."
--Dylan Thomas
"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."
--Emily Dickinson
Menu of Poetic Forms
Ballad
Blank Verse
Cinquain
Elegy
Epic
Epistle
Free Verse
Limerick
Ode
Sestina
Sonnet
Villanelle