Poetry

Really bad poetry written on blackboard.

Poetry was a type of art that involved the use of written words to tell a story, and often times with rhyming words.

Poems were generally meant to have meaning, so as to generate an emotional response in the listener. The type of emotion depended on what the poem was about.

Poetry was not always clear on its' meanings and often recited poems were more like riddles than clear stories, leaving the person reading or listening to the poem to really focus on its' meaning, and to come up with their own interpretation.

Known poems

• Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
• Mirror, Mirror
• On the Road To Mandalay
• To A Mouse
• The Spider and the Fly
• The Song of Hiawatha
• The Raven

Known poets

• Mary Howitt
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Robert Burns
• William Shakespeare
• John Donne
• Dante Alighieri
• James Thomson
• Edgar Allan Poe

External Links

• Poetry at Wikipedia