What is poetry? This literary genre has been around first as anoral tradition si

What is poetry? This literary genre has been around first as anoral tradition since the beginning of human history. Yet there isno absolute agreed-upon definition of poetry. The poet SalvatoreQuasimodo said it is the revelation of a feeling that the poetbelieves to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes ashis own while Greek philosopher Plutarch called it painting thatspeaks. And contemporary author and poet Salman Rushdie has saidA poets work is to name the unnamable to point at frauds totake sides start arguments shape the world and stop it going tosleep. Whatever your own feelings try to approach the Phase 3readings with openness. You just may discover that all threewriters were correct about poetry!