Question

write a paragraph on the significance of poetry of 120 words.

Answer 1

Poetry is a literary work in verse writing of high quality, great beauty, a piece of art, with emotional sincerity or intensity, a graceful expression showing imagination and deep feeling with beautiful and elegant quality. It is a profound insight that enables a poet to idealize reality and to see the things or situations in a particular way, to express his feelings of his own accord and to represent them in such a way as to delight the readers.

Answer 2

There is an appeal to the significant role poetry can play in our lives, yet in neither case is there indication of how poetry is able to offer such benefits. If we are to make the case for poetry’s role in education, we must address the issue of how we can measure such benefits and why they are particular to poetry rather than other artforms. Part of the problem is that arguments relating to the importance of teaching poetry are often drawn together with arguments that relate to the importance of teaching literature more generally, without making the case for what is distinctive about poetry.1 Take, for instance, Fecho, Amatucci, and Skinner, who argue that the central aim of teaching poetry is to expand understanding of self and society: ‘teachers in English classrooms [should] situate the reading and creation of texts as ways of making meaning, as processes through which we develop existential sense of ourselves as actors in larger social worlds’