Writing assignment

Poetry is said to predate literature and script as ancient tribes used to practice it verbally and through song. Poetry itself is an art-form of passion. Some also say that all passion is born of pain and this combination of passion and pain doesn’t necessarily need any script. Poetry can be considered many different things for many different people although whether it is the way you say I love you to your future spouse or the way you say goodbye to a relative who has passed away; it is always poetic. I was once told that a poem is simply enough just words on a page and I couldn’t agree more. Words on a page no matter how rhythmic or methodical do not equal poetry; it’s the passion and emotion behind those words that make it differ any other text. “Poetic passions hold true to their creators and wish no harm upon those who feel its pain” (Damien, A Poets Mind, 2) is somewhat of the point I am trying to get across. Poetry is a harmonious blend of emotion in which 90% of the time is never captured or recorded on paper. The common misconception with poetry is that it has to be written such as the discovery of the first poem; “Epic of Gilgamesh” which was found in Iraq from the 3^rd millennium BC. According to the wikipedia website the era of the poem “Epic of Gilgamesh” is when poetry must have started as a verbal practice and eventually graduated to actual script. So from my point of view they are stating that emotion did not reside within mankind until this point in time. The issue I would like to address is the fact that any action foul or benevolent if performed based on emotion, is poetry. The fact of discovering a written poem has less to do with poetry than it does a rare archeological find. This paper is not intended to malign the historical texts which quote a specific time frame when poetry was originated although I will attempt to attest to the fact that poetry dates back to the beginning of mankind.