I should have been a pair of
ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
(T S Eliot)
What is poetry?
Poetry is the art
of
expressing thought and feeling through the medium of language.
Chinese language is more poetic in nature than English so a grasp of poetry
can assist when reading books regarding
tao.
People use the word 'poetry' to capture a sense of natural flow, beauty and
harmony e.g. poetry in motion...
The conventions of poetry differ from standard writing.
Poems may express ideas using very few words and ignore the rules of grammar and
punctuation entirely.
Haiku
Haiku is a type of poetry that is minimalist in style.
Traditionally it uses a 5-7-5 syllable structure and concerns nature in some
way.
Koan
Koan
is similar to haiku except that the poem is a paradox intended to free the
mind from a habitual pattern of thinking.
Not every koan will or can make sense.
The koan serves as a
learning tool.
Wit
Traditionally poetry has been
used as a medium for the expression of wit,
humour
and passion.
In ancient Japan, the verse of the pillow book was used to evoke eroticism
too.
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