What's the diffrence between poetry and delineated prose?

[rowens]

Poetry is inseparable from its specific form. If you abstract the feeling of that poem or poetry, the feeling or whatever constitutes feelings in someone, maybe more than some one, is the form of the poetry. That is a general idea, one that most experience. But it's not useful for many people, at least not useful to think that way, at least not for writers of poetry with an eye to critical qualifications. With an emphasis on concrete, at least linguistical concrete structures, it's fair to submerge any ideas of poetry as feeling or leave them alone in a secondary or far off faded position in pseudoscience layers of worldliness involving philosophy and psychology, high school and ethnic pride ceremonies. In the hard world of tangible language unit constructions, poetry is a sum of its parts, form is not a social construct but an aesthetic, which is a social, construct with natural assurances lurking and tingling and seeping, and definitions are concrete-hard and placeable. You can't feel the brain but you can

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feel the mind which is the same thing. You can feel the brain. Concrete. To feel poetry, it's communicated, to yourself, others. So the concentration is on the craft. The poetry comes in the craft. It's inseparable from its form and its form is its mere device for abstracting into other forms, feelings, ideas, matters.