Glitter of poetry

Poetry is considered to be the oldest type of literature. Early examples are the Sumerian "Epic of Gilgamesh", parts of the Bible and the works of Homer. Early poems evolved from folk songs such as Chinese Shijin songs, or from the need to retell oral epics, or from the Sanskrit sciences, Zoroastrian verses, and Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Ancient attempts to define poetry, such as Aristotle’s Poetics, have a focus on the use of speech and rhetoric, drama, song, and comedy. Later attempts were concentrated on properties such as repetition, the form of verses and rhymes, and the emphasis on aesthetics by which poetry differs from objective informative, prose forms of writing. Since the middle of the 20th century, poetry has sometimes been generally considered the basic creative act of language use.

Poetry uses forms and conventions to suggest a differential interpretation of words, or to evoke an emotional response. Means such as assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia and rhythm are sometimes used to achieve musical or incantation effects. The use of ambiguity, symbolism, irony and other stylistic elements of poetic diction often leaves poems open to multiple interpretations. Similarly, speech figures such as metaphor, comparison and metonymy create resonance between otherwise different images - stratifying meanings, forming previously unknown connections. Related forms of resonance can exist between individual verses, in their rhythm or rhyme patterns.

Reading poetry is an art. It’s not just a routine of the reader’s imagination, like when we read prose. First of all, we don't read poetry every day. We read it in those moments when we feel that our soul is sad and melancholic, just like that, confused and sung. That is why spring is the right time to read poetry. Excitement and sadness at the same time, are exactly what will make our eye dance and get the desire for the song.