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What's the point of poetry?

In the very olden days what art did people have? Singing, dancing, painting, what else?Poetry then was closely linked to song, and the original metres set out to create different moods. Poetry was als ........

The way I write

I now tend to write as I read. In the past I would reflect on things I had read. Now I read first in order to find better ways to write.As an example, formerly I may have read sonnets, and then wr ........