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What Role Will Poetry Play In

the year 2000?
-and what exactly is poetry anyway!
‘An artistic way of describing things’....sounds nice. ‘A persons effort to express himself through rhyme or not’....interesting. ‘rhyming lines’....not always. ‘Attractive verses’....close. ‘don’t av a clue mate!’..............
Whilst trying to establish a definition for the word ‘poetry’ as you can see from the answers to my questionnaire I came across interesting, amusing and clever descriptions. My own favourite definition sums up my feeling about poetry, it is something I read on the back of a poetry book recently;
‘poetry is to prose as dancing is to ...

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can be set out in many different formats, and does not necessarily need to make complete sense (even though it has a meaning) Prose is set out in a ordered way where one sentence is always followed by
another sentence, it follows the same punctuation rules and a continuous, logical pattern.

The reason I think that everyone defines poetry differently is that we are exposed to so many totally different types of poetry.

My favourite form of poetry is song lyrics. Although not one of the most obvious forms of poetry it is becoming increasingly

popular especially with young people who are exposed to it regularly. For example every time you buy a C.D album or tape you can read the lyrics of the songs printed inside. A favourite of mine is a song called ‘Pockets’ by ‘Beautiful South’;

'Here comes pockets
His trousers hold a thousand deadly sins
The maddest things we ever found in bins
He clutches them and looks at you and grins.'

It may not be ...

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