What is Poetry?
Poetry is one of the oldest genres in Literature or literary history. The term "Poetry" however goes back to the Greek word 'Poieo' ( to make, to produce), indicating that the poet is the persons who makes verse. In spite of the fact that etymology sheds lights on some aspects of the lyric and the poetic explanation of the genre which combine poetic language with linguistic elements other than rhyme and metre do more justice to non - traditional forms such as free verse or prose poems. These approaches examine lyric phenomena the choice of words as well as the use of syntactic structures and rhetorical figures. Thus, this heterogeneous criteria outline the major qualities that are conventionally attributed to poetry.
