this subject has been written by many writers, but the meaning is varies. It is subjective,isn't it? Let's make your own definition of poetry. through these poems.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that it is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that it's poetry.
As imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them shapes and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name.
Poetry is the spontaneous over flow of powerful feelings.....emotion recollected in tranquility.
I have always maintained that the writer's task has nothing to do with mystery of magic, and that the poet's,at least,must be a personal effort for the benefit of all. The closest thing to poetry is a loaf of bread or a ceramic dish or a piece of wood lovingly carved,even if by clumsy hands.