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Definitons of Poetry

"If I read a book and it makes my body so cold no fire ever can warm me, I know that is poetry." Emily Dickinson

"Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing." Dylan Thomas

Poetry is the intersection of the concrete and the abstract, the tangible and the intangible; poetry exists at the edge of the known and the unknown, working with the mundane and the creative. It provides a new way of looking, a different mode for understanding. It refreshes, reminds, resonates, and remembers. Dana Jacobson In one paragraph, explain why you selected the definitons of poetry by other(s). Include what you think those definitions mean. Then, explain your defintion of poetry and why you defined it as you did.