Definitions of Poetry

The fact that there are fifty different versions of poetry definitions makes me was laugh and pull my hair out. Poetry and I do not get along with each other. The fact that I actually caught onto something in class that had to do with poetry surprised the pants off of me. I honestly don't understand poetry, especially Shakespeare and older forms of poetry, but some of these definitions hit my thought of poetry exactly right. 

"Poetry is basically anything that calls itself a poem." I will not lie and say this is probably one of my favorite definitions on the list because this is how I feel 90% of the time when I have to read poetry. Modernist totally threw all the rules out the window and made everyone a poet. I can write something horrible about candles and call it a poem. Poems are just not poems anymore which makes a student's life more difficult.

"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them." I agree with this definition because poetry is used mainly describe and event or what someone felt during a particular event in their life. But because the readers never get to experience the same things as the writers, it never has that great of an experience on the readers as it did the writer. It tries desperately but never succeeds. 

Those definitions are just a couple I liked on that list, but there were a lot more that I saw fit with my interpretation of the definition of poetry. Maybe one day I can actually relate to the definitions that define poetry as "beautiful."