poetry about emotions

What is poetry about emotions?

There are as many definitions of poetry about emotions as there are poets. In addition, the term poetry about emotions is often used in various meanings. We deal here with the most common definitions of the three most used meanings of poetry:

1. Poetry is a language expression with a strong emphasis on form, sound, and imagery.

2. Poetry about emotions.

3. Poetry is an elusive aesthetic experience.

Below a further explanation about these different definitions of poetry.

Broad definition of poetry.

Definition:

 1-   Poetry is a language expression with a strong emphasis on form, sound and imagery.

Explanation:

In the definition above we mean by form, among other things, the division into verses, deliberate breaks of rules and experimental use of fonts. By sound, we mean things like rhyme, meter, and melody. With imagery, you can think of comparison, personification, and metaphor.

The broad definition of poetry is mainly used in the opposing pair of words: prose and poetry. The prose is primarily about content. Forms, sounds, and imagery are less important.

Of course, poetry is also about content, but the form, sound, and imagery are just as important. In other words: the extent to which form, sound, and imagery is important in a language expression is what defines the distinction between prose and poetry.

It seems an uneven distribution because the prose is very broad. After all, besides literary prose, we have infinitely many other forms of prose, for example: newspaper articles, business letters, brochures, research reports, e-mails, etc.

 However, those who think for a moment will realize that the broad definition of poetry mentioned above can also include many different language expressions, including:

                        

•     Literary poetry               
•     Love poem
•     Leisure poems
•     Casual poems
•     Songs
•     Children's rhymes
•     Sinterklaas poems
•     Rap battles etc.

Even some advertising slogans are actually poetry. What do you think about 'Wonderfully clear Heineken'? Without the alliteration, this advertisement would not be so appealing. Or how about 'Craftsmanship is mastery'? Here are the rhyme and symmetry that gives power to this slogan.

By the way, the line between prose and poetry is sometimes vague. There are various language expressions in which it is not always clear whether something is poetry or prose. Take the prose poem and the Very Short Story (ZKV). The first is poetry and the second is prose, but sometimes they look a lot like each other.

Furthermore, the term "language expression" makes the definition even broader. Language expression means that the definition is not limited to poetry recorded in letters on paper (or on the computer screen), but the definition also includes language expressions that only exist as spoken or sung language. That is why songs and rap battles also appear in the list above.

Scary definition of poetry.

2. Poetry about emotions.

Explanation:

This definition of poetry coincides with what we in the broad definition count as 'literary poetry'. The term "literary" means that a value judgment is attached to this definition. It is not about the opinion of simple poetry lovers, like you and me, no, it is the value judgment of a select group of poetry authorities that counts here.

With poetry authorities, you can think of literary publishers, reviewers of national newspapers, professors of literature, editors of literary magazines, jury members of poetry prizes and others in the position to tell us: these poems are poetry and these poems are not poetry.

A literary publisher does this by publishing the work of one poet and throwing the manuscript of the other poet in the trash. A reviewer does this by praising one collection of poetry while he dismisses the other collection of poetry as amateurish fiddling.

In their value judgment, the poetry authorities use quality-oriented criteria such as originality, expressiveness, craftsmanship, etc. However, commercial and social interests often also play a role. For example, a publisher may publish a collection of poems by a well-known Belgian politician, while many poets who write really good poems will never find an interested publisher. A well-known name simply sells better than an unknown name. Friendship policy often also plays a role.

The conclusion is that the poetry enthusiast can only rely to a limited extent on the opinion of the poetry authorities. Therefore, read especially what you like and listen as little as possible to others. That is the best way to enjoy poetry.

The spiritual definition of poetry about emotions.

 Definition:

     3-  Poetry is an elusive aesthetic experience.

Explanation:

This definition may sound rather vague and actually, it is. This is because a difficult state to describe is meant. The term "elusive" indicates that in this definition. That is why this definition may only be understood in relation to aesthetic experiences that can be interpreted. A few examples:

If you are impressed by the craftsmanship with which an antique cherry wood cabinet has been put together hundreds of years before, then that is an explainable aesthetic experience. Even if you are emotionally touched by a poem, because it describes a feeling that you recognize, but that you have never been able to put into words so aptly, then you can explain why you like the poem. The fact that tourists find our flower fields so fantastic is due to the primary colors and the rectangular shapes in which we have captured these colors: a rectangle yellow, next to a rectangle red. It looks like a Mondrian painting.

For all three of the above aesthetic experiences, logical explanations can be devised and therefore they are not poetry according to this definition. This even applies to the example with the poem. However, if after all the analyzes it still remains elusive, why we find something beautiful or special, then there is poetry.

However, this prosaic explanation also falls short. That is why I now leave the floor to Remco Campert who manages to explain what poetry actually is in his next famous poem:

                  

Poetry is an act of confirmation.

 I confirm that I live,

that I do not live alone.

Poetry is a future, thinking

next week, to another country,

up to you when you are old.

Poetry is my breath, moving

my feet hesitating sometimes,

about the earth that asks for it.

Voltaire had smallpox, but

healed himself by drinking, among other things

120 liters of lemonade: that is poetry.

Or take the surf. Smashed

she is not really defeated on the rocks,

but resumes itself and is poetry in it.

Every word that is written

is an attack in old age.

Finally, death wins,

but death is only the silence in the room

after the last word has sounded.

Death is a emotion.

         Quote of the poetry about emotions.

v Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.