POETRY

Definition: A literary or philosophical interpretation/expression through verbal means.It usually has a rhythmic or not so rhythmic structure. Usually poetry appeals to many different types of readers who enjoy different genres of this art form.

Example: Dante's Divine Comedy, CANTO I:  "

"IN the midway 1 of this our mortal life,
I found me in a gloomy wood, astray
Gone from the path direct: and e’en to tell,
It were no easy task, how savage wild
That forest, how robust and rough its growth,	5
Which to remember only, my dismay
Renews, in bitterness not far from death.
Yet, to discourse of what there good befel,
All else will I relate discover’d there.
How first I enter’d it I scarce can say,	10
Such sleepy dulness in that instant weigh’d
My senses down, when the true path I left;
But when a mountain’s foot I reach’d, where closed
The valley that had pierced my heart with dread,
I look’d aloft, and saw his shoulders broad	15
Already vested with that planet’s beam, 2
Who leads all wanderers safe through every way.
Then was a little respite to the fear,"

Significance: Since poetry is viewed and read by many people in the world, it is a significant way to express yourself.