THE EMOTIONAL POWER OF POETRY
**Ratan Kaul “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thoughts and thought has found words,” that is what Robert Frost wrote about poetry. Prose, poetry and drama, the three main genres of literature have through their creative expressions enthralled the readers since ages. Each has its creative value in entertaining, inspiring, carrying social messages and storytelling in general. However, poetry has unique attributes. While prose includes novels, short stories or non-fiction that’s written in the day-to-day language used or heard by us and has a paragraphic structure, the distinct constituents of poetry are its lyricism with poetic imagery. As for theatrical dialogues in dramas, these need to be supplemented by physical elements like stages and props for conveying stories impactfully to the audience, though there is some poetic flavour. Also, the great differentiator for poems is that they depict diverse kinds of emotions like hope, joy, grief, anguish, romance and compassi...