Anonymous  +  957506 Fri, 30 Oct 09 09:02 PM Whati is the difference between poetry and speaking? I think that poetry stands for being able to convey the best ideas to an audience or to a single person where as speaking plainly is often spontaneous and unrefined i think that speaking cannot fulfill all of the dimensions of understanding in language that poetry caninside the infinitly generative combinations of words. Am I right? Anonymous

	Avangi  +  957590 Fri, 30 Oct 09 10:43 PM When I read your first line, as displayed in the forum list, I wanted to say that Shakespeare might agree with you.  But when I read your post in its entirety, I changed my mind. I do agree that the crafting of a poem is never careless, although some have famously created under the influence of mind-altering substances. I've heard it said that King Lear  is the greatest love poem ever written, and there's surely an abundance of "spontaneous and unrefined" language. To me, the difference lies in the art  of the poem, which may be experienced on many levels.  Poetry makes use of the connotative meanings of words   -   meanings you don't find in the dictionary. Avangi Joined on Mon, Nov 19 2007 Veteran Member 8,207 ". . . le plaisir delicieux et toujours nouveau d'une occupation inutile." - Henri de Regnier Love Poems, Writing, Speaking, Chat, Friendships, Poetry