To me poetry is the written form of the emotion felt in a particular point in time, something not easily explained. The lyrics to Gilbert and Sullivan's song Hail Poetry, in their play Pirated of Penzance gave me a new oultook on poetry.
Hail, Poetry, thou heav'n-born maid!
Thou gildest e'en the pirate's trade.
Hail, flowing fount of sentiment!
All hail, all hail, divine emollient!
When I heard this song I realized that poetry was emotion, up to that point I never really understood what poetry really was. When I approached a poem using this view point i was able to understand more about the poem than I ever had before.
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