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Date: 10th April 2016

Redefining Poetry in the Modern Day Art

Poetry is a form of art which the human language is used to achieve aesthetic qualities in addition to the semantic and notional content. Usually, poetry is expressed in an oral manner using different styles to enable the audience spot a difference from the ordinary prose being read. It is through this rhythmical composition which can either be spoken or written and used for either exciting pleasure or being able to pass across your thoughts.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!

For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!

And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest,

Was not spoken of the soul………. (A psalm of Life By Ongfellow, Henry Wadsworth)

Poetry as a form of art has been there for very many past years and was majorly used as a tool of remembering the oral history, genealogy, story and law. Poetry, therefore, has been a tool