So I think basic education system failed me. I remember in school, we’re taught that poems needed to rhyme and that it needed a pattern for each verse. But then.. there’s free form poetry and there’s spoken word poetry..
What makes poetry different from descriptive sentences and from songs?
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Poetry uses a wider range of the resources of language. Fiction typically ignores the sound of language, but poems are written with attention to sound. While all kinds of literature uses metaphor and other figures of speech, poetry uses them more intensively. Since modernism, poems have typically been short, but that wasn’t always true previously.
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