 | Poetry is a special type of language use. This needs to be
understood properly, because it is more than poetry just looking or sounding
different. As well as these obvious differences, poetry does two things that prose
writing doesn't do.
 | Firstly, it tends to deal with its subject in a different,
more complicated and often more emotional way. It does this by making the reader pay
attention to detail in a way that other writing can't do so well. |
| Secondly, because of the odd way of arranging the words on the
page, poetry often draws attention to the fact that it is language being used in a
peculiar way. |
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