--Poetry-- Overview:  What is Poetry  Why do we study it?  Types of poetry - Poetic forms - Stanza - Closed Form # Italian Sonnet # English Sonnet - Villanelle - Haiku WHAT IS POETRY? Is it the best words in the best order? Or a place where thinking and feeling is one? An opportunity to see something ordinary as extraordinary A gift, - like "Different Kinds of sunlight" - D.H.Lawrence - WHY DO WE STUDY …showed first 75 words of 663 total…

…showed last 75 words of 663 total…a wistful yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity - the essence of Zen Zen = ultimate achievement of a monk In Japan they have even replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with haiku's, such as: Serious error All shortcuts have disappeared Screen. Mind. Both are blank And: First snow, then silence This thousand-dollar screen dies So beautifully This emphasizes the importance of playfulness in poetry; no one wants to read a boring poem.