Poetry is derived from the Latin word Poeta means a poet is a beautiful art form of literature. Poetry is unique in the various spheres of art due to its artistic, rhyme, rhythmic flow of language which appeals to our senses. Poetry, like other genres, has a rich history of its own. Early attempts by Aristotle, Plato, Euripides, Sophacles and many others, greatly followed and strengthened by romantic writers like Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Byron show the various transformation it has undergone in the history.

Poetry uses a unique form of expressing the meaning in a delicate way. The use of metrical devices like Assonance, Consonance, and Alliteration are used to achieve the musical element in it. The use of symbol, metaphor, simile, metonym are focused to put forth the layers of meaning to be perceived by the readers. Poetry has various forms in itself like epic, lyric, ode, sonnet, ballad etc according to the modern literarians. According to Aristotle’s Poetry, the classical division of poetry is in three parts - epic, comic, tragic. Aristotle has laid down rules to be followed while writing these genres (to be considered as a touch stone) in his Poetics. Poetry eventually became classified into just three major genres – dramatic, epic, and lyric poetry. Comedies and tragedies fall under the dramatic genre of poetry.

As in Wordsworth’s line, Poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings and emotions recollected in tranquility. No doubt Poetry has a strong impact on the readers due to the metrical devices employed in them. Keats, called the Poet of Five senses, has the ability to make us feel through his poems. Wordsworth has the power to make supernatural appears natural through his lines, whereas Coleridge can make natural appears supernatural. When the classists emphasize the language used in poetry should be high flown bombastic to show its eloquence, the romantics argue that the poetry should be in a common man’s language to reach even the layman to enjoy and adore the beauty in it.

Prosody is defined as the study of meter, intonation and also the rhythm of a poem. Meter is the number of feet per line. Iambic pentameter is five feet per line while dactylic hexameter contains a total of six feet per line. The art of creating poetic rhythm varies according to the language. Intonation also varies according to the rhythmic flow of the language. Poetic form is more flexible in modernist poetry. Writers prefer to write in free verse.