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Since the beginning of the world, poetry has been an alternative to express the feelings through heap of lines and beautiful sequence of words in rhythmic order.

While reading poetry, human nature comes to experience rhythmic and pleasant feeling that is deemed as poetry. After reading poetry, one feels that his or her words that he or she cannot, in fact, utter from her mouth or cannot speak of directly or the emotions pertaining to one’s internal person are expressed by the poet. Simply, one considers poetry his or her own story been told beneath the lines. In fact, it gets soothing phantom by getting into the world of poetry, the imagination comes plunging its reader into philosophical phantom and making its reader sashay. Nonetheless, poetry is the philosophy that touches the senses of feeling pain and pleasure both at the moment; another type of poetry that connects its reader to the sanctimonious thought, or builds a relation between the creation and the creator. It touches spiritual peak inside one’s conscience and brings his or her to the divine fold.

A good piece of poetry is emerged as very splendid point of philosophy that may be defining the point to live life. Life, subjective to the years spent in the period of surviving in this world, goes through many phases like happiness, sorrows, torments, wonders, experiments, poverty, richness, power, superiority, inferiority, separation, segregation, complexities, anxieties, depressions, illness and many more sufferings

“Poetry is the criticism of life,” Matthew Arnold said. However, it contains widespread sort of interpretation, criticism in literature means an evaluation of thoughts regarding literature, its discussion and interpretation. So, poetry can evaluate and interpret the logic of life subjective to its ups and downs in simple. Criticism has multiple branches that are directly or indirectly connected to the core of literature and philosophy. Human is very capable to understand natural phenomenon as it is given with superiority over all other creatures of God, to comprehend that nature in language of heart, poetry plays its pivotal. Criticism in respect to poetry is to analyse a viewpoint or an idea or any theory regarding anything in life in general or in particular very critically and very logically. The crux of criticism in poetry: Criticism in poetry is to measure its depth and its punch in view of its explanation about events, life, and the relevant.

A good piece of poetry is emerged as very splendid point of philosophy that may be defining the point to live life. Life, subjective to the years spent in the period of surviving in this world, goes through many phases like happiness, sorrows, torments, wonders, experiments, poverty, richness, powerfulness, superiority, inferiority, separation, segregation, complexities, anxieties, depressions, illness, and many more sufferings. These all together may happen to a person witnessing life. Every human undergoing any of above is acquainted to life. Those all moments of joy and chaos would be expressed well in the form of poetry. Poetry paves the way for a person to peak emotions, pour sentiments, and lash aggression. The punch of poetry – how the poetry hits the mind its reader with goose bumps – is directly pertaining to mental and emotional state of poet. How poets happen to write? How they carry the influx of pain and pleasure within the poetry? Which reason in their life had brought them to pen down their metaphysical thoughts putting right words at right places? Which ilk of drugs they use to intoxicate their readers? What kind of inebriation they use as ingredient for crispy and tasty poetry to make its reader addicted? Those all queries would be entertained after going into depth of inference and interpretation of the lines of any poetry.

In conclusion, the emotions of poet are depicted and portrayed in his or her piece of poetry. In nutshell, the punch of poetry defines the pain or pleasure of poet, he or she basks in. the beauty of poetry defines the mental state of poet.

The writer is a student of political science at Shah Abdul Latif University. He can be reached on shamschanna1998@gmail.com