What is poetry?

 Though many have tried to define poetry ,no one has succeed in given a satisfactory definition of it .poetic seems to elude all attempt todescribe it. yet we should know something about poetry, and learn to cultivate our feeling for it ,so that we made gradvalley come to recognise it ,and know when it is present . the best we can do is to point out some essential characteristic of true  poetry .

Before we disscuss these essential  characteristics , let us try and understand the connection between poetry and verse. Verse is the form of poetry. Poets generally ( but not always) write their poetry in verse - form.