Meaning of Poetry According to Some Experts

1. PutuAryaTirtawirya

According to PutuAryaTirtawirya the meaning of poetry is an implicit and vague expression, with implied
meanings, and the words in it incline on the word connotative.

2. John Keats

According to John Keats the meaning of poetry is an attempt to read beautifully from imagining a
narrative of thought or logical process. It does not imply a poem that makes no sense or has no
narration.

3. Pradopo

According to Pradopo the definition of poetry is an activity that is a solid outpouring of the soul, and is
suggestive and associative.

4. DjokoPradopo

According to DjokoPradopo the definition of poetry is a result of compaction activity, which is a process
of creation by capturing an impression and then condense it (condensation).

5. Herman J Waluyo

According to Herman J Waluyo the definition of poetry is a form of literature that expresses a poet's
thoughts and feelings imaginatively and is composed by concentrating all the power of language and
concentrating on a physical and inner structure.

6. Ralph Waldo Emerson

According to Ralph Waldo Emerson the sense of poetry is a way of teaching as many words as possible
with words.

7. Watt Dunton

According to Watt Dunton the meaning of poetry is a concrete expression and the artistic nature of a
human thought in emotional and rhythmic language.

8. SastraSudjiman

According to Literature Sudjiman understanding of poetry is a variety of literature whose language is

bound by a rhythm, spell, rhyme, and something in the preparation of arrays and stanzas.

9. UsmanAwang

According to UsmanAwang the definition of poetry is a poetry is not a song of desperate people who
seek a tranquility and satisfaction in the poem he wrote.
10. According to Matthew Arnold states that poetry is the single most beautiful, impressive, and most
effective way to sing something.

11. According to BurhanNurgiyantoro also revealed that poetry is a literary genre that is very concerned
about the selection of language aspects. The beauty effects of poetry are derived from the choice of
language, especially the diction aspects concerning elements of the sound, form and meaning of poetry.

12. According to Aminuddin Poetry is defined as making and making because through poetry basically a
person has created a world of its own, which may contain messages or images of certain atmosphere,
both physical and inward.

13. According to Paul Valery Poetry is an art based on language, yet poetry has a more general meaning
that is difficult to determine because it is less decisive; Poetry also reveals a certain state of mind.

14. According to Samuel Jhonson poetry is the spontaneous evaporation of feelings of power, he
emblaces the will of emotions that reconcile into peace.

15. According toJhonDreyden poetry is articulate music

16. According to Byron: poetry is a lava of imagination whose eruption prevents the onset of
earthquakes.

17. According to Percy Bysche Shelly: poetry is a recording of oneself in the best, pleasant moments of
the best and most pleasant thoughts.

18. According to Altenbernd: poetry is the interpretation of the experience of interpretation

(interpretation) in rhythmic language (as the interpretive dramatization of experience in metrical
language).

19. According to Samuel Taylor Coleridge: poetry is the most beautiful words in the most beautiful
arrangement.

20. Thomas Carlyle Argues that poetry is a musical expression of thought. A poem expresses thought-
provoking thoughts, which stimulate the imagination of the senses in a rhythmic arrangement. They are
important, recorded and expressed, expressed in an interesting and impressive form. The poem is an
important recording and interpretation of human experience, composed in the most memorable form.