WILLIAMSJI MAVELI : POETRY AND PEACE

POETRY AND PEACE
Peace poetry, such as it may be named—like the peace association that it anticipates, reflects, and argues with—is part of a larger human conversation about the possibility of a more just and soothing arrangement of social and environmental, ecological relationships among literary oriented people in promoting peace-related activities within a nation, a community or a society. Peace sometimes means, peace within, when we are facing inner struggles
Good poetry will surely evoke a demanding imaginative awareness of understanding or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm. Poetry is a vast subject, as old as history and older, present wherever religion is present, possibly—under some definitions—the primal and primary form of languages themselves. Poetry has a musical quality with rhythm, pitch, metre and it may use figures of speech such as simile and metaphor. Defining poetry; man’s nevertheless familiar acquaintance with it; the differences between poetry and prose; the idea of form in poetry; poetry as a mode of thought; and what little may be said in prose of the spirit of poetry.
Poetry is the other way of using language. Perhaps in some hypothetical beginning of things it was the only way of using language Both poetry and language are stylishly thought to have belonged to ritual in early agricultural societies; and poetry, in particular, it has been claimed, arose at first in the form of magical spells recited to ensure a good harvest. Whatever the truth of this hypothesis, it blurs a useful distinction: by the time there begins to be a separate class of objects called poems, recognizable as such, these objects are no longer much regarded for their possible growing elements and such thoughts are capable creating an impact upon the human spirit and not directly upon the natural world outside. The word “Poetry” originates from a Greek word meaning to make. A poet is thus a maker and the poem is something that is made or created. No single definition of poetry is possible.
Readers' reasoning for asking for a definition is to take care of the borderline case, and this is what a definition, as if by definition, will not do. That is, if an individual asks for a definition of poetry, it will most certainly not be the case that he has never seen one of the objects called poems that are said to embody poetry; on the contrary, he is already tolerably certain what poetry in the main is, and his reason for wanting a definition is either that his certainty has been challenged by someone else or that he wants to take care of a possible or seeming exception to it: hence the perennial squabble about distinguishing poetry from prose, which is rather like distinguishing rain from snow—everyone is reasonably capable of doing so, and yet there are some weathers that are either-neither.
WILLIAMSJI MAVELI