Poetry as a sublime expression

Abstract

Poetry in its general meaning is the highest expression of human sentiment and feeling. Poetry is not only the means to express oneself but also the means to transmit one's feelings. This can also be seen at the dawn of civilization, namely when the highest development of the intellectual and civil elements took place. Poetry was born with the release of the first shout of joy or disappointment of the first human being and became a literary form with the evolution of the language (Bresso: 1947). Poetry is therefore, today, an art by which the poet projects feeling and experience on an immaginative plane to stir the immagination and emotions (Funk & Wagnalls: 1974). In fact Coleridge said that Poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.