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Poetry is fantastic and makes it easy to say things that help others. It can be romantic, loving, and speak of love. Or it can speak of war and death. Its covers all areas of the human heart and the world too.

Music like poetry can make you feel the emotions of the human heart and can effect the people who hear it.
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hhriver wrote:Poetry is fantastic and makes it easy to say things that help others. It can be romantic, loving, and speak of love. Or it can speak of war and death. Its covers all areas of the human heart and the world too.

Music like poetry can make you feel the emotions of the human heart and can effect the people who hear it.
Very true! A simple idea in the hands of a gifted poet can be expressed in a manner which evokes profound levity, grief, fervor or joy. Words can be powerful emotional stimulators for both good and evil. Hitler was not a particularly intelligent man, but his words and how he expressed them moved an entire nation down a path which led to the greatest misery in the history of mankind; conversely, the impassioned words of John Adams moved a small group of colonists to form the most successful nation on earth. Neither of these men wrote poetry, but words, and simply the manner in which they are arranged such as we find in poetry can arouse profound emotional effect.

With regard to music: In my lifetime I have heard pieces of music which I had never heard before which moved me greatly. I have often been curious as to what psychological trigger causes such emotional effects. A symphony piece or concerto has no words which one can associate with ideas and yet just the sound of the music itself can cause an enormous emotional effect. A case in point was the first time I heard Samuel Barber's Adagio For Strings. I was mesmerized by it and for no reason I could put a name to and much to my surprise I found tears rolling down my cheeks when it was over. The first time I heard Bach's Toccata and Fugue I just sat there with my mouth hanging open when it was over. I felt that I had heard the very concept of the term "genius" presented in audio form.
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Words are one of the most important and amazing tools that anyone can use!
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Yes, I also like to make poem to convey my feeling.
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Poetry and music most definitely portray feelings and emotion. In everything we do and everything we are it's all around us at all times. a sad song can trigger memories or display how we currently feel just as a glimpse of love can lead us to write some of the most beautiful poetry.
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I agree. Poetry can express so much in such a few words. The same goes with music. I love them both.
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Poetry is a reaction to the true picture of your imagination.U tend to outer project and say things as they should or ought to be.
Music is a simple expression of your feeling at a particular point in time
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I get annoyed with myself that poetry in general barely affects me. I have friends who write it and say they are a hundred different hidden meanings and morals and I struggle to see beyond the actual words. I would love to love poetry.

Having said that I really like some of the war poetry from WW1 and 2. Siegfried Sassoon and Alfred Lord Tennyson's Charge of the Lightbrigade. That terrible war imagery is something I can actually connect with most of the time. It is almost haunting. But anything else? any other topic? I don't seem to understand.
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True.Like poetry.Reason:such is poetry in literary for,but if we drop the limitation to verbal expression and think of poetry as that subtle fire and inward light which seems at times to shine through the world and touch the images in our mind with ineffable beauty,then poetry is a momentary harmony in the soul amid stagnation or conflict-a glimpse of the divine and an incitation to a religious life.
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In this world true meaning of life is in the poetry and music. Where we all live by everyday.
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hhriver wrote:Poetry is fantastic and makes it easy to say things that help others. It can be romantic, loving, and speak of love. Or it can speak of war and death. Its covers all areas of the human heart and the world too.

Music like poetry can make you feel the emotions of the human heart and can effect the people who hear it.
Good poetry is certainly full of emotion and powerful ideas.
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I've read poetry that has had a profound effect on me and I have written poetry that has had a profound effect on me. Poetry is definitely a form of art that can make you feel like there is something wrong with you because it constantly changes your mood.
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I often think of poetry and music as forms of my own therapy.
Music can help to change my mood or just match my mood and I can listen to it and just be.
Writing poetry helps me to work through my emotions and make something pretty at the same time.
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DATo wrote:
hhriver wrote:Poetry is fantastic and makes it easy to say things that help others. It can be romantic, loving, and speak of love. Or it can speak of war and death. Its covers all areas of the human heart and the world too.

Music like poetry can make you feel the emotions of the human heart and can effect the people who hear it.
Very true! A simple idea in the hands of a gifted poet can be expressed in a manner which evokes profound levity, grief, fervor or joy. Words can be powerful emotional stimulators for both good and evil. Hitler was not a particularly intelligent man, but his words and how he expressed them moved an entire nation down a path which led to the greatest misery in the history of mankind; conversely, the impassioned words of John Adams moved a small group of colonists to form the most successful nation on earth. Neither of these men wrote poetry, but words, and simply the manner in which they are arranged such as we find in poetry can arouse profound emotional effect.

With regard to music: In my lifetime I have heard pieces of music which I had never heard before which moved me greatly. I have often been curious as to what psychological trigger causes such emotional effects. A symphony piece or concerto has no words which one can associate with ideas and yet just the sound of the music itself can cause an enormous emotional effect. A case in point was the first time I heard Samuel Barber's Adagio For Strings. I was mesmerized by it and for no reason I could put a name to and much to my surprise I found tears rolling down my cheeks when it was over. The first time I heard Bach's Toccata and Fugue I just sat there with my mouth hanging open when it was over. I felt that I had heard the very concept of the term "genius" presented in audio form.
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I am just always moved by your write-ups, you are someone of high degree of intelligent. Your choice of words is just so simply even for a layman to comprehend. I look forward to reading one of your book someday sir!.

Am just so happy am on this platform of prolific genius .
Kudos Sir.
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Poetry is an avenue to sympathize with the writer or with another reader of the same emotion at the moment of reading. Poetry may make two readers from the opposite sides of the world cry, lough, or smile.
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