| Title | What is Poetry |
|---|---|
| Landing page | https://ujonlinepress.uj.ac.za/index.php/ujp/catalog/book/326 |
| Publisher | UJ Press |
| Published on | 2025-08-29 |
| Long abstract | Politics and Poetry can be defined as an eloquent marriage that captures an infrequent connection in the most sophisticated way. Poetry can be defined as the composition of metrical language captured through a patterned language, expressing the art of versification (Oxford English Dictionary, 2025). Davies (2009) argues that poetry reflects the force for power, that we can define as soft, an assemblage of picture, eloquence, and music that never fails to make a strong and everlasting impression in the human mind (Davies, 2009). Johnson (1779) captures poetry as “the essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights... Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford.” While Wordsworth and Coleridge (1800) allude to poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origins from emotion recollected in tranquillity.” |
| Page range | pp. 3-9 |