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When I was a teenager, I lived in a drug infested cockroach small house in Seattle. The tenants were poor and violent, but the night manager was one of the sweetest and most wise mentors I’ve ever known. His name was Jim. Jim had a bushy beard white, large, red cheeks, long hair and thick glasses. It was like an old Jerry Garcia.Jim has spent the most time watching television or reading in bed, but from time to time he left his room for a delicious dinner for the tenants in the building, just a kitchen to cook.
Jim has been very clear. He loved the intellectual conversation that the reason he was interested in me maybe. I was so ignorant, but I liked to discuss issues that many people could live in Jim or not.Jim gave me the first copies of Plato, Aristotle and Rousseau. It also gave me some of my first lessons in poetry. I lacked experience in reading poetry at that time, I can not really say how well Jim was really, but I remember I had a hard time understanding most of the poems look at me.
Jim gave me a definition of poetry that has always stayed with me.He said: “Poetry is the art of cramming as much meaning in so few words as possible.” At that time, this definition means that very little for me, but over the years as I I read and wrote poetry, I thought about it and I think it’s a good benchmark for critical evaluation of poetry and prose. I feel behind the definition of poetry. Definitions must include any specific examples of things to define in a general statement. Jim was just a particular example of a rule may impose a poet himself.
Poetry is writing that obeys different rules than the rules intentionally prose. Prose is not necessary rhyme, meter, a number of syllables, a certain order or a particular pattern of accents.Poetry can require none, some or all of the examples I just listed. A poet may chance to win. It may, I I I I any other word I have to I I. I mentioned the word “intentionally” in the definition to exclude writing by the rules, the author faults such as rules of prose.
My definition may be too general of the accused. What about the rules of the SMS? What is the obligation of Tweets character 140?Texts and tweets to consider poetry? I recognize this problem and some others, but I wonder whether the adoption would tweets and texts like poems, a lesser evil when you consider that the definition I propose is as close as possible to be too disparate works as the narrow road in Deep North, The Canterbury Tales, Paradise Lost, The Waste Land, and I Used To Love HER rpophessagr
I conclude this article with a poem. It obeys the Rule 17 syllables of haiku. It tries to cram ideas from the fourth book of the Georgics of Virgil, the story of Jacob and Esau, a few passages of Bertrand Russell History of Western Philosophy, and the usual themes of my poetry in a few words as possible. I hope you enjoy it.
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