What is Poetry

To me poetry is language written in an artistic way to show feeling to the reader. Readers read poetry to read a poem that brings delight to them or entertain them. Poetry can be different to everybody because there are different types of poetry. Poetry is written to please the mind and to bring a happy feeling into their body. In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind. Everyone has their own way of thinking of poetry and that’s why people enjoy poetry because there are not certain rules to tell you what you have to write about. People also enjoy sharing an opinion using poetry to explain something to someone else rather than just telling them about it. In this essay I will tell about the history of poetry, why we need poetry, and why poetry is written.

Poetry is supposed to be as old as the modern man. Some of the oldest written works of literacy are written in poetry. Poetry Therapy, or poetry which is used for healing and personal growth, may be traced back to primitive man, who used religious rites in which witchdoctors chanted poetry for...