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Poetry
* aligned with specific melodies and rhythm makes up the 'corpus' of Yemeni vocal music.
* also has meter.
* beautiful form of expressing feelings, and emotions.
* book of light at night.
* builds verbal skills by helping children look at communication and words in a fun, new way.
* can aid in the development of children s language.
* can be a means of artistic expression and personal discovery
  - to search for truth, for the truth that can be embodied by our actions
  - convey an artist's abstraction of a person, an event or a scene to another
  - immortalise things and people
* can, like pottery be the affirmation of the unity of the human with the natural world.
* candle where other lights fail.
* collaborative enterprise involving the contributions of many people.
* collection of original poetry.
* comes in all shapes and forms
  - shapes, sizes and styles
  - out when the soul opens up out through the mind
* compression of language, and the movement in a poem is from idea to idea.
* conversation begun in ancient times about what it means to be human.
* deals with language, structure, voice and meaning - the essentials of literature.
* form of expression and one can tell a lot about a person by what they write
  - writing that evokes images, emotions, and ideas and as well as tell stories
  - which works towards perfection, but no poem is ever perfect
* genre
  - that the students have studied during library
* goes back to the beginning of our history, and music is part of society.
* growth process, the same as in all forms of writing.
* has for a long time playeda central role in Swahili society.
* human connection that transcends pre-conceived assumptions.
* is about a writer sharing with the reader an experience or strong feelings
  - all things born with wings that sing
  - also about words
  - an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are
* is an art form
  - of time, as music is
  - practised with the terribly plastic material of human language
  - awareness of what Nature is
  - expansion of emotional words
  - image-making power in which words are set unchangeably in order
* is an important area of concentration in literature
  - part of Japanese tradition
  - integral force in the metaphysical and political lives of indigenous peoples
  - another form of writing that has great potential for the gifted child
  - art by means of words
* is as common as flowers, as friendship, as loss, as evil, as good
  - much a part of the universe as mathematics and physics
  - based on the oldest oral traditions
  - black blood accumulated within the erectile tissue
  - both perception and the thing perceived
  - breath filling the lungs, blood pulsing in the veins
  - but one form of language, exressed either literally or metaphorically
  - connected with love, sexual attraction and the divine
  - essential to the fabric of culture - and to the fabric of our lives
  - humankind's first native language
* is language organized for aesthetic purposes
  - that sounds better and means more
  - literary work
  - literature that links the reader to the true personality of the author
  - located in bookstores
* is made by dissolving halos in the ocean of sound
  - with the syllables of dreams
  - one form of communication that lends itself to creative thought transmission
* is one of the aspects of literature studied in the ninth grade
  - most ancient and common forms of verbal expression
  - noblest creations of the human mind
  - person talking, whispering to another
  - our basic connection between our sense of self and the cosmos
  - physical, in every sense of the word
  - pillow-thought after intercourse
  - religion brought down to earth and it is of the essence of the Negro soul
  - the anarchy of the senses making sense
* is the art of communicating ideas, impressions and feelings
  - creating imaginary gardens with real toads
  - fighting with appearances
  - intimate speech, of real conversation
  - uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason
  - bill and coo of sex
  - breath sharply inhaled, a catch in the throat
  - capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words
  - catalyst for the expression of the deepest human feelings
  - common tongue as it appears in dreams
  - darkness made light
* is the distillation of articulate animals calling to each other over a great gulf
  - the poet's perception and response to the world
  - establishing of being by means of the word
  - expression of one's very soul
  - greatest of arts
  - heart expressing itself to the world
  - highest form in the art of language
* is the language of intimacy
  - mystics
  - our inner-most thoughts and feelings put into words
* is the language of the gods
  - meeting of minds and hearts
  - most intense and muscial expression of language
* is the music of the heart, and out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks
  - soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls
  - parent of superstition
  - place where words are tamed and educated by being surprisingly placed
  - saying of the unconcealdness of beings
  - soul of our life
  - sound of words, a column of air, rhythms in language
* is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in tranquility
* is the voice of the fourth person singular
  - fourth-person singular
  - within the voice of the turtle
  - working of the soul
  - used as a formto communicate what one feels
  - very much a part of the popular culture
  - visual-music and visual music is poetry, because it is associative
* is what moths hum as they circle the flame
  - the poet writes or the audience claims as poetry
  - word-music, an art which paints pictures with words and sounds
  - writing style
* language of the old and the young
  - spoken to express one's opinions or feeling towards something
  - used in a special way
* language, a language of emotions.
* mix of cadence and words, and music mix of cadence, words, melody and harmony.
* natural introduction for young children, to spoken and written language.
* place where ambivalence can live.
* powerful means to communicate the human spirit.
* precision instrument for recording man's reaction to life.
* refers to the senses.
* responsible attempt to understand the world in human terms.
* revealing of the self to the self.
* ritual of sound draped over light.
* sometimes describes a very real feeling by linking together words in an unreal way.
* source of emotion.
* stems from an oral tradition.
* system for reading.
* takes many forms and expresses many ideas.
* therapeutic outlet for emotional and physical pain.
* transfer of potency.
* universal language
  - vehicle for communicating thought and feeling
* usually requires some awareness of line, rhythm, meter, and sometimes rhyme.
  * uses the qualities of words, in different ways, to be artistic.
* vehicle for music, memory and history that at one time existed through oral traditions.
* vital element of any culture.
* way to use the language against itself.
+ Metaphor: Words
  * Poetry includes much metaphor, usually more than prose.