Here is definition of poetry as "distillation of experience." This definition doesn't provide a mention of the use of language. Perhaps poetry by this construal could be a dance, a picture, or architectural work.

At first glance I totally disagree. Poetry is definitely a luxury, as is the ability to read and write, the ability to share poetry freely (free speech), or even have the time to dedicate to poetry. Not saying it should be but unfortunately its how the world we live in works.

Crazy statement. One other thing is that sometimes people dont recognize their own suffering. They go day in day out thinking that the pain they experience is normal just because they have been desensitized to it and then don't know that they need to advocate for themselves or that its even an issue. ei hoarders, people with abusive parents, addicts.

Same bruh

first time seeing this word a "philologist is a specialist in philology, which is the study of language in its historical, oral, and written contexts, focusing on literary texts, historical records, and the associated cultures"

Interesting to see that first author we have in the historical record was a woman. In so many ancient cultures all of priesthood, access to education, and public life were limited to men.

Kind of like school or life as a whole. Even in Kindergarten we had a graduation. dressed up like college graduates and it probably felt like in that moment I could have titled it 'the end.' Of course we've all gone on passed that phase. Yet even now in college when we graduate it will feel similar even though millions graduate every year and countless others did in all the years prior. In a way it is child like to recognize achievements in our lives that have been done before but at the same time most peoples lives aren't that unique and most everyone goes through the same motions. What else would we get to celebrate

Im not sure I quite understand probably because im not a poet. Again with an analogy to art if i wanted to paint something I would have to have a very specific plan, outline, and method to actually paint a picture. I dont paint so I cant just bob ross it and start throwing oil on a canvas and know that it will come out amazing. I think it superfluous to expect young writers to be able to so naturally create poems or works of art without a set plan.

I can get behind 1-6 they seems like effective methods for understanding a poem. But all of 7 I think can actually be summarized to "does it have thought behind it?" Any one of those rules can be broken if the author intends for them to be broken or there is a greater purpose for including or omitting that technical detail. For example maybe the voice of the work is inconsistent to show the author's insanity or incorrectly using punctuation as a metaphor for something greater. I dont know, but I think that as long as there is thought and purpose behind the technical details its really doesn't matter how you write a poem

I don't think that anyone can have a definitive technical checklist for what makes a poem good or bad. Poems are sometimes intangibly moving not because any specific technical feature but because it just works. Imagine if we judged other forms of art perhaps paintings in this way?!

Excited for this. Never had to rate other peoples poems before or have my poems graded by others. The video aspect also adds to the experience. Maybe someones poem will be trash by they conveyed it a cool way so they will get higher peer ratings than an amazing poem conveyed in a bad way.

This is reassuring. One of the hardest parts of writting for me is the fear of failing. Having this policy as fall back gives me the opportunity to explore my ideas more freely rather than putting out what I might think the teacher is looking for

Very good question. I think if someone asked me I would say a poem is a written work that follows a distinct style that conveys a deeper meaning. However at second glance "written work" isn't valid because there are many poems that are never written and "distinct style" isn't valid because poems don't always have a partictular style. Leaving us with a written work that conveys a deeper meaning - which isn't saying much.

This is such an understated fact. Many of the largest, oldest, and best preserved works are written with a poetic meter system. One of my favorites the oldest written work in the english langauge Beowulf. Its extremely difficult to understand since its hundreds of years old and in old English but a very important work.