What is the purpose of poetry?

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I mean I thought It might be to entertain, but these poems are quite dud, pls help. Loq
 
Assalamu Alaykum Warahamtullahi Wabarakaatuh,

Which poems ukhtee?

Anyways found these reasons on Google

Esthetics
The music of language, intricate rhyme schemes, elegant phrases, vivid images - the art of poetry is enough to inspire many to write it.
There is no earthly reason for the existence of Shelley's poem, "To a Skylark" - except that it sounds beautiful. Edgar Allen Poe could have had no reason to write "The Bells" except delight in the music of it -- unless he was cackling with glee over the prospect of generations of readers being driven up the walls by his repetitions.

Which leads into the second category ...

To Have an Effect
Many writers are frustrated hams. We want to "make 'em laugh; make 'em cry." We want to reach out and touch someone -- arouse them to sensuous passion, make them shudder in dread of creepy things in the shadows, enrage them, soothe them. Just to prove we can.
Which leads into ...

Showing Off
Intricate rhyme schemes; alternating trochaic hexameter and anapestic octometer; vivid flights of imagery that leave stunned readers asking, "Huh? Whazzat?" There are many ways to indulge the urge to Show Off, in poetry.

Persuasion

"A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down." From satirizing your enemies to promoting your heroes, teaching ethics or arithmetic on Sesame Street or selling cat food, millennia of persuaders have found that people listen to and remember words couched in rhythm and rhyme, and phrased entertainingly.

Communication
This is closely related to the urge to have an effect, or to persuade, but not identical.
I have been writing poetry for a lot longer than I have been writing prose. Often, in conversation, I will want to express an idea - and I know just the poem for it. If it is inappropriate to interject a poem right then, and I have to translate the poem to prose, I feel frustrated. I am convinced the poem said it better.

I have been accused of Showing Off, by reciting too many of my own poems in conversation, but it is hard for me to understand the accusation. To me, the purpose of poetry is communication - I'm just trying to communicate.

This illustrates one of the benefits to understanding a wider variety of the purposes of poetry. People can become confused by another's poetry, if it does not seem to pursue what THEY consider poetry's purpose. A person who believes that the whole reason for writing poetry is to create esthetic works of art, is baffled by the existence of Therapy Poetry. A person who believes that the whole purpose of poetry is to explore and express your innermost feelings, tries to read much more into flight-of-imagery poetry, or parodies, than was ever intended.

This can be frustrating. Leading into ...

Venting
Large numbers of poems are written to vent emotion: anger, anxiety, grief, longing, homesickness, love, lust. Exasperation with red tape. Annoyance at bus drivers. The overwhelming absurdity of a restaurant sign you just saw. All kinds of feelings that you have to express or bust.

Exploration
This is related to Venting, but more extended.
It may not be true that all humans always think in words, but certainly much of what passes for thinking in most of us is in words. And many of us find it easier to clarify our thoughts and our feelings if we talk them over with someone -- or just ourselves.

Free-associating on paper -- which poetry is an excellent way to do -- we can often startle ourselves with insights.

Pouring out an emotion can help us not only relieve it, but eventually understand it better; come to resolution of grief, or rage, and move on.

And sometimes just having something out in print at last can be a relief:

It Was There
Sometimes a poem just comes to you. Then you have to write it down. Then you have to share it. This is part of what being a poet is. (This is also part of what being highly annoyed by poets is.)
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Hope they help and not make things worse^ :p

WaAlaykumus Salaam
 
Abdul Baari said:
Assalamu Alaykum Warahamtullahi Wabarakaatuh,

Which poems ukhtee?

Anyways found these reasons on Google



Hope they help and not make things worse^ :p

WaAlaykumus Salaam
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WalaykumSalaam wArahmatullahi Wabarakatuh,

JazakAllahu khairun guys,

You know for GCSE you use that anthology thing? I duno if you remember, but the poems by Simon Armitage,

Argh I hate work, I had breakfast twice today but this work is making me fall asleep, Loq.
 
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Purpose of poetry is to help you view things from another person's perspective, by exploring the other person's feelings.
 
- Brok3n - said:
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Purpose of poetry is to help you view things from another person's perspective, by exploring the other person's feelings.
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WalaykumSalaam Warahmatullahi Wabaraktuh,

Isn't that too long of a purpose,

I thought it was meant to fit into things like inform/persuade/entertain etc.

:thumbs_up JazakiAllah khair.
 
Assalamu Alaykum Warahmatullah,

Lol, i just handed my Poetry Coursework in last week :p but the poems were by Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Tatamkhulu Afrika.

What is the question that you have to answer?

:w:
 
Abdul Baari said:
Assalamu Alaykum Warahmatullah,

Lol, i just handed my Poetry Coursework in last week :p but the poems were by Lawrence Ferlinghetti & Tatamkhulu Afrika.

What is the question that you have to answer?

:w:
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AsalamuAlaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh,

Ohh I like them poets they have nice poems, there is no question I'm menno analyse them, it's in for Wednesday but I can't even start it, 'cause I duno the purpose,

Can a purpose be: to create sympathy?

Cause one is about death.

One is I think meant to be funny, but its not working: can it be to create humour?

And the third one is just plain stoopid.
 
what's "Loq" ? laugh on queue? laugh out quietly? always wanna ask...sorry

to keep on-topic: I hate poetry done at school, I only like arabic (Islamic) poetry...and Islamic english poetry...but mostly arabic...
 
Ever read 'The Raven' by Edgar Allen Poe? That told me everything I ever needed to know about poetry. Google it.

Simon Armitage is also pretty dang good. I like when he described a pigeon's spreading tail feathers - 'pick a card, any card'.
 
- Brok3n - said:
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^ Laugh out quietly. It's an LI thing loq :D
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oh, thing is it doesn't sound good like lol. cause I actually say "lol" not "l" "o" "l"

loq sounds weird

EDIT: I mean I "read" it as lol...I don't actually say lol while talking
 
Muezzin said:
Ever read 'The Raven' by Edgar Allen Poe? That told me everything I ever needed to know about poetry. Google it.

Simon Armitage is also pretty dang good. I like when he described a pigeon's spreading tail feathers - 'pick a card, any card'.
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No I havn't read that one, but he's a good poet, ma teachers fav Loq,

Man what a bad idea going out now, I got tan lol, I forgot about the pc, anyone in Lu'on? Boycott the plaza!

I will google it jazakAllah khair,

AsalamuAlaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.
 
the question itself sounds poetic lol

and i dont get it *confused*



i always thought its to provoke thought and sometimes it just sounds nice when you read it
 
IbnAbdulHakim said:
the question itself sounds poetic lol

and i dont get it *confused*



i always thought its to provoke thought and sometimes it just sounds nice when you read it
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AsalamuAlaykum IbnAbd'hakim,

Ya thanks,

Ima natural then! jazakAllah I'll re arrange and word the last bit and add it in!
 
barney said:
How does poetry differ from music?
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Hiya Barn,

Poetry is like words and Music is like notes? Ok I don't really know but they're different,

Sorry - Was that question menno help me? *scratch head*
 
What about accapella. Thats got no musical instruments!

Plus is'nt the whole idea of music being haram that it takes your mind off God, when all thoughts should be directed towards him.
A lot of poetry is not praising god, its talking about love, death, joy anger, beauty, human things.

I'm just uncertain why poetry has never been considered haram by the scholors.
 
barney said:
What about accapella. Thats got no musical instruments!
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Then it's not music, it is a song,

Bro what has this got to do with my work, no offence or nothing,

The scholars know what they are doing, please no disrespect man, there is good and bad in everything, there is good poetry and bad poetry, we have brains to avoid the not so good ones.
 

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