Poetry's power is contained and effective, and best when its conciseness reveals entirely the subject's values. A few carefully phrased words relate sometimes much more than a plethora of descriptive paragraphs, dialogue or physical spectacle. Well written poetry engages the reader to a shared emotion, thought, place, imagination or experience, if briefly, then qualitatively. Communications in the 21st Century electronic culture portends the brevity, shock, silliness or agenda and sales-intentions of its creator and can disallow the recipient an experience of shared expression. When novelists...
Poetry's power is contained and effective, and best when its conciseness reveals entirely the subject's values. A few carefully phrased words relate s...