Poetry does not defy
description.
On the other hand, imagining a full
description of poetry would take a lot longer than watching “Gone With The
Wind.”
So let’s give due respect to
this effort to define poetry by Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
“The best words in their best
order.”
That one jingles the chimes on
my back porch, I can tell you.
Coleridge, by the way, is the
Romantic poet, one of the so-called Lake Poets, who wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan
(“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan…”).
I think poetry is all about
selecting exactly those words that say, as precisely as possible, with fully
literate specific meaning, what the poet wants to tell.
I wish I’d said what Sam said.
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