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Make a case for or against the study of popular verse. In order to understand the importance of poetry we first need to answer the question what is poetry? In reading a poem for its message, critics often appear to be saying that poems 'really' mean something different form what they appear to mean, and may of us are often led to assume that the interpretation of a text is a matter of finding its 'hidden meaning'. Poetry can be defined as genre by saying that it is different form other main literary genres, fiction and dramas. A second definition based on features of language distinguishes between the way poetry and so called ordinary uses of language. A third definition would differentiate poetry from prose on the basis that it is arranged differently on the page. Poetry means different things to different people and the way readers relate to poetry depends...

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