The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-06-24
Flashlights
BY Beau Esprita
POETRY AND VERSE
BY Beau Esprita

POETRY AND VERSE
These little articles do make poets. That must
be the place from which marriages repued
Nor does the writer this article elsewhere make claim
right speak poet could be firmly
WINGED utter lack of essential qualities OF poetry in his
writings than he is himself.
Since they have been, critics have disagreed as to
poetry?" probable that they will
poetry with emotions ideals matters touching closely
the individual affections and therefor defyng rigid definition
We all readily agree however to what poetry not;
and by combining representative opinions may form work
able theory the qualities which most generally characterize
true poetic expression.
Leigh Hunt that Poetry utterance of pas
sion for TRUTH beauty and power embodyng and illustrating
its conception and fancy and moduang It's language the
principle of variety uniformity j. W. Macka calls poetry
Art working in the material of patterned language The
earliest critic with who familiar is Aristotle who
Poetry imitation initiative art" Bacon phrased the
thought somewhat differently: Poesie leth the magma
ton" while Macauy in his Essay Milton, speaks of the
Art of employing words in such produce il
fusion on the imagination"
Seadman claimed that poetry must be 'vocal-'musca
thought Carlyle has said somewhereHege insisted that
metre is the first and only condition absolutely demanded by
poetr while the author of 1.-The Faire Queen" asserted that
verse essential poetry Our Poe called poetry
the ryhmica creation of beauty, fine concept, worthy of
Plato's language of the Gods"
In all of these fagmentary definitions we find much differ
and much similarity; the later cenerng around beauty
rhythm lofness of and Interpretation Of
teristc of poetry.
In the foregoing have assumed an essential difference
between poetry and Pehaps will be we'll put this
difference into concrete expression before proceeding
Poetry spirit it's outward FORM Poetry is emotion
verse gesture Poetry life is but pictures the pc
approaches e embodes and reveals vitality
approaches poetry 1t always easy say where the pc
ends and the vital force begins One may write very good
verse; yet never write poetry and conversely all the poets
have written bad Pope perhaps the best
he
sustained unusual equaby between the almost fatal
equaby for some OF Popes best poetry would have been
greater had been poorer The fire.
the zeal OF the poets inspiration not fully revealed checked
by the polished phrasng the studied bance of the versca
ton.
The history of poetry is the history of civilization, it
is the history of all knowledge of all education. LET learned
Greece Sir Phillip Sidney any her manifold
be able to show book before Musaeus Homer Hesod
three nothing else but Nay any history brought
that writer's there before Them they not
of the skill Not only had they this priority
out went to draw with their charming sweetness
the wild untamed wits to admiration of knowledge"
The origin of poetry prehistoric secre cannot
any any nation and say here the first poet
But be reasonably that the human mind
became sufficiently developed employ outward images as
of expressing inward feelings emotion concurrent
WITH if the achievement of conscious thot
realization of hem poetry born We picture newly
awakened dancing about his kill wrthng in the agonz
clutch of some great calamity chanting in crude rough
rhythm his praise petition the gods of his joy his fear
Primitive people, and children do this today They take hy
in expression duck takes to water; the African
with his chant for play for love and
the little tots in the their joy and their
ridicue the two essentially primitive of the emotions 1t
is not difficult hen how the occasions repeated
again and again the chant individual would be taken by
family adopted by the tribe appropriated by it's neighbours
So the tribal rituals the earliest poetry of which have
any knowledge.
Last year, two of the ball games played with outside
teams by the Green Sox local fans ethuhasc the
work of kid eteder kid eftfielder despite the om
Pendenn against the connection of slang
with baseball for reasons first this
because that what he in the minds of the fans who
him. and second because do believe writing
for the Mirror vein do not ordinary conversation.