Poetry is defined by the oxford dictionary as: Literary work in which the expression of feeling and ideas is given intensity by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature. Leonard Cohen describes poetry as: Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. Poetry has the ability to teach us, it gives us a deeper insight to the lives, events and characters that take life within the poems. Poets such as Walt Whitman and his poem “Come up from the fields, father” tell us of the mother and daughters experience in learning there son and brother has been injured in the war. Through Walt Whitman poem we learn about the physical, emotional and spiritual pain of the family. The mother grieves …show more content…
His line “ I remember, I remember, The fir trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops were close against the sky; it was a childish ignorance, but not ‘tis little joy to know I’m farther off from Heaven Than when I was a boy.” Thomas allows us to reminisce about our childhood years and provokes us into thinking about the journey we have taken from childhood experiences to current experiences. We are enamoured by poetry by its ability to enlighten us, to make things beautiful and make us feels things we have not felt before or are unable to express ourselves. Poetry opens a world that gives us experiences we have not gone through ourselves. This is seen in the poem Little Giffen by Francis Orray Ticknor. The poem is set in a letter to Miss Michelle Cutliffe Ticknor, the poets granddaughter. While she has never experience the war in the way the solider has the recounting of his story gives her insight into what he has suffered and his bravery to continue fighting (read