Poetry and Comparative Analysis

Poetry

Poetry is the combination of the best words in their order. This best order has a rhyming scheme, metrical order and imagination along with a combination of human willpower, ordinary language and sometimes a reflection of life as well as society. It should criticize and interpret human feelings and reform the lives of its readers. The vitality of these qualities should render immense aesthetic pleasure to readers.

Additionally, good poetry should have ordinary language means that the language used in the poetry must be as simple as it could be understood by the majority of people. There should be universality in the selection of words so that everyone can pick them the reader is more educated or less educated.

Furthermore, the language used in any kind of poetry must be in a specific order such that it can mark some sort of difference between simple words of general literary passage and poetry itself also. Under the umbrella of this concept, poetry can have rhyming order with its well-organized scheme and poetry may have metrical diction so that readers may observe and feels aesthetic pleasure. This metrical order and proper ordering of words help to memorize poetry in the normal context.

Functions of Poetry

Firstly, arising feelings and emotions among readers is an influential function of poetry, this quality leads poetry to the divine one. Some unique features of versification are the identification of such feelings that the reader could not felt before it. Moreover, the best function of poetry is to become the cause of reformation in society, especially its reader or lover.

Secondly, a specimen of secondary imagination, means that poetry should not be only a combination of primary imagination but it must be a combination of primary plus will power of the poet as well i.e., secondary imagination. Because of this secondary imagination poets can observe and understand nature and other concepts in a better way. Similarly, artists can interpret different processes in such a simple way that would highlight every aspect of human life along with solutions to problems.

Thirdly, poetry should have the ability to recreation so that it not only imitates the processes but also has a characteristic of re-organization of imagination. It means that poetry is not a copy of things but something more than it. It should be the combination of such imagination that would be imitated according to the intellectual ability of its readers.

At last, poetry and its functions are supposed to be a wider topic for discussion. Similarly, different scholars have interpreted it in several ways that depict their intellectual ability of observation and their experience with poetry along with its function.

Literature Review

T.S. Eliot states that “Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. However, only those with personalities and feelings understand what it means to want to get away from these things”. Since poetry is mainly about feelings and emotions, and feelings and emotions are special, they should be written in our own language.

“Poetry is really divine,” wrote P.B. Shelley in his essay “A Defense of Poetry.” It is both the nucleus and the periphery of knowledge; it comprises all science and is to which all science must be referred. It is both the root and the blossom of all other systems of thought; it is the source of all life and the embellishment of all; and it is the source of all fruit and seed, withholding nourishment and succession of the scions of the tree of life from the barren world if it is blighted. It is everything's flawless and consummate surface and bloom; it is the odour and colour of a rose to the texture of the elements that make it up, the shape and splendour of unfading beauty to the secrets of anatomy and corruption.”

“I will describe, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Development of Beauty,” writes Edgar Allan Poe. Taste is the only requirement. It has no direct relationship with the intellect or the conscience. It has nothing to do with obligation or fact unless it happens to be the case.”

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