POETRY , OUR OLD FRIEND
Poetry remains our old friend. When our ancestors became happy after hunting a beast , they, in excitement, made a campfire and used to enjoy dancing and uttering sounds. Perhaps, this is the old beginning of poetry. We are human beings and have two special instincts. One is impulse, and another is imitation. Both of them tend to create sensation. Sensation includes joy, sorrow, love, excitement and so on. WHAT IS A POETRY? Sorry, we do not have any precise definition of poetry like physical science or mathematics. But we have many definitions to fill this purpose. Dr.Johnson gives us the feature of poetry as ' material work' in dealing with invitations. Carlyle puts poetry ' a musical thought'. Many Marxist poets call poetry "a collection of emotions'' Wordsworth says it as ' the spontaneous overflow into the of powerful feelings'. Coleridge says , ' the antithesis of science, having the objective to give pleasure'. P....