What is poetry ???

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Poetry (from the ancient Greek: ποιέω / ποιῶ (poiéo / poió) = I create) is a written art. In this art form, a poet uses language to add aesthetic qualities to semantic meaning. The emphasis on the aesthetic aspect of a language and the intentional use of repetition, meters, and rhymes is what distinguishes poetry from prose. However, this difference is still debated. The view of the laity usually distinguishes poetry and prose from the number of letters and sentences in the work. Poetry is shorter and denser, while prose flows more like telling a story. Some modern scholars have an approach by defining poetry not as a type of literature but as a manifestation of the human imagination, which is the source of all creativity.

In addition, poetry is also the outpouring of one's heart that brings others into the state of his heart. The lines in the poem can be anything (circular, zig zag and others). This is one way the author to show his thoughts. Poetry sometimes also contains only one word / syllable that keeps repeating itself. For the reader, it may make the poem unintelligible. But the author always has a reason for all the 'strangeness' that he created. Nothing restricts the author's desire to create a poem. There are some differences between old poetry and new poetry. However, some cases of modern poetry or cyber poetry have recently become more and more apprehensive when judging from the principal and the rules of poetry itself, namely 'word compaction'. Most active poets now, whether beginners or not, are more concerned with the style of language and not the subject of the poem. In the poetry is also usually inserted by the master who makes the poem more beautiful. Majas are also diverse, one of which is sarcasm that is rude direct sarcasm. In some areas of Indonesia poetry is also often sung in the form of pantun. They are reluctant or unwilling to see the preliminary rules of the poem.