Poetry uses language musically and meaningfully unlike prose, using techniques like rhythm, rhyme, imagery and brevity. It is one of the oldest forms of literature and was originally used orally to help storytelling through memorable patterns. Poets craft each word purposefully to evoke vivid images and emotions in the reader across cultures.

1. Poetry as language. By Rebeka Tello Navarrete.

2. Short stories, essays, autobiographies, are examples of prose, the language that you hear in your daily life.

3. Poetry, unlike prose, consists of language with a strong musical quality in which the words are highly charged with meaning.

4. Usually poetry is written in lines, and these lines are grouped into stanzas. Poetry is one of the oldest forms of literature.

5. Before literature was written down, people told stories. They use rhythm and rhyme to help them remember the stories better. Many narrative poems still use rhythm and rhyme to tell stories.

6. In addition to using rhythm and rhyme, poets use language in other special ways to appeal to a reader’s senses and emotion.

7. Because many poems are short, poets choose each word and phrase with care to create vivid images, or pictures, in the reader’s mind.

8. Poems are another way of language, that make us understand the differences in culture and is an other way to acquire a foreign language.