Poetry for the Inner Ear

The Top Three Features of Poetry 1. The poets  show their preference for open vowel sounds, rich and fluid feminine endings, and the balance of phrase and clause. The poems aptly reveal the musical ear of these artists . The sound effects contribute to the final impact of the poems. It is difficult to agree with an uninspiring nihilism of Jean Baudrillard “Everything has already happened…nothing new can occur.” Great poetry is full of moral ideas; ‘the idea is the fact’. Nancy Scheper-Hughes (b. 1944) wisely says: “If we cannot begin to think about social institutions and practices in moral or ethical terms, then anthropology strikes me as quite weak and useless.”  2. The images in a poem become a true mark of true genius, when they are moulded by the passion present in the poet’s mind. S. T. Coleridge (1772-1834) says, “ Images, however, beautiful and true to nature and accurately presented in words, do not of themselves become a mark of poetic excellence. They become proo...