"What is Poetry?"

To start it off, I have to say that trying to define poetry is just like attempting to convey your own religion to other people ,which is delicate and invidious. John tries to define poetry through comparing poetry with other forms of writing , including prose ,novel,eloquence and so on, or even painting. And i think poetry is amorphous and sometimes a assorted mix, which is really hard for those people who try to distinguish one from another,just as John puts in the article that '' Many of the greater poems are in the form of fictitious narrative; and, in almost all good serious fictions ,there is true poetry. Though convolved, those forms of art do have one thing in common : the expression of human feelings.To sum it up, i feel it is really meaningless to try to define poetry too precisely, we should leave some space to them instead of trying to put them seperately into some isolated compartments, which, I thought , might strangle the creativity .