Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The nature of poetry enhances word placement and language; there is linguistic significance through poetry.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Poetry is an active, creating mechanism that adds to nature; nature does not sustain or regulate it; it’s unique.
Emily Dickinson – Poetry is an out-of-body experience; it is transcendental and transformative.
Robert Frost – Poetry has a certain structure to it; it begins with an exciting allure to the reader; it has a set of “lucky” events and always ends with some clarification – even though some details may be left unclear to the reader.
Whose definition do YOU most agree with? Why?
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