What is it?

What is poetry I often ask myself. I could never figure what differs a poem from a song...
I've writen things but they differ from those real famous poems in many ways... So Im not even sure that I write poetry..

So give me some kind of explanation since this question is anoying me..

Sorry people I do not have time to look for threads... if u want to, answer me here if not thats ok as well..

Thanks

Yes I also believe that actually... it makes sense...

Oh dear.

Try listening to a poem read out, and then listening to a song. If you hear a differnece, you will understand. Notice how songs have musical notes, various pitches and tones, whereas poetry....why am I even attempting to be patronizing?

This is stupid. You need to get your head checked.

Oh this guy is just... Wow...

You could read a song as a poem and vice versa...
Any poem could be sung and every song could be read as a poem.. Musical notes CAN be put into poems as well as they CAN be taken out of songs...
Therefore that is NOT A CLEAR BORDER!!!!

My dear silly friend my head is ok... You however should realize that you are a life form of primitive and low inteligence and you iritate me with your presance... Don't act smart... be smart

Now let me rephrase this question to avoid people like the kid above..

If I gave you a poem and a song on paper without any notes or anything... just 2 texts how would you differ them?

Is there a way to differ them?

I want to say some songs are poems,but other aren't

If you put a song in text and left it at that, it is not a song any more (per se). So you're asking what's the difference between a text and a text. Note that a poem is a text.

^and yet, most people think there is a difference between poetry text and prose text.

I think poems and lyrics are quite closely related - there are really only stylistic differences. Songs are generally more repetitive, with choruses and refrains, etc. Also, they have the tendency to rhyme. Poems can have, but needn't have, both of those things. There have been poems set to music... some lyrics are poetical. It gets pretty subjective. But the main medium of a song is music, while the main medium of a poem is the arrangement of words.

In the end, though... does it really matter all that much?

I truly hope so... and well I guess the answer must be concluded as you say...

And for the question "Why does it matter?"

Well you see if we only talked about things that matter we would not talk much now would we ?

Take Care =D

Well, songs are generally accompanied by music, while poems are just words spoken to a rhythm... my definition, anyways. :)

Poetry is what we feel. Some of us might be like the famouse poets we look to for insperation. But others have their own style their own ways of insperation.