Can proverbs and poetry be compared?
First of all, we have to know what is proverbs and poetry?
So here we go to know about proverbs.
"proverbs" is a plural noun and A proverb is a simple and insightful, traditional saying that expresses a perceived truth based on common sense or experience. Proverbs are often illustrative and use formulaic language. Collectively, they form a genre of folklore.
Meaning of proverbs:
A proverb is just an expression or saying based on common sense or experience. They are nothing but common and traditional sayings which explain some truth.
The origin of most common Proverbs generally lies in local or universal truths and principles. This is why it is easy to translate and use them in any language.
a short well-known sentence or phrase that gives advice or says that something is generally true in life
The main characteristics of proverbs are that it explains a truth or principle. The truth can be from diverse fields like human experience, history, advice etc. They can also be philosophical in many ways.
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Some proverbs and their meanings:-
1. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Meanings:- Being away from someone or something for some time makes you appreciate that person's things more when you see them or it again.
Sentence:- "I used to hate going to my aunt's house, but now I kind of miss it. Absence makes the heart grow fonder".
2. Actions speak louder than words.
Meaning:- What you do is more important than what you say.
Example:- Don't just tell me you are going to change. Do it! Actions speak louder than words.
What is poetry?
Now, we have to know about poetry.
poetry, literature that evokes(to produce a memory, feeling, etc. in somebody) a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm(a regular repeated pattern of sound or movement).
Poetry is a vast subject,(extremely big) as old as history and older, present wherever religion is present, possibly—under some definitions—the primal and primary form of languages themselves. Poetry is a type of literature based on the interplay of words and rhythm. The present article means only to describe in as general a way as possible certain (completely sure; without any doubts) properties of poetry and poetic thought regarded as in some sense independent modes of the mind. Naturally, not every tradition nor every local or individual variation can be—or need be—included, but the article illustrates examples of poetry ranging between nursery rhyme and epic. This article considers the difficulty or impossibility of defining poetry; man’s nevertheless familiar acquaintance(a slight knowledge of somebody/something) with it; the differences between poetry and prose; the idea of form in poetry; poetry as a mode of thought; and what little may be said in prose of the spirit of poetry.
poetry can be defined in many different ways.
Poetry is the other way of using language. Perhaps in some hypothetical beginning of things, it was the only way of using language or simply was language tout court, the prose being the derivative and younger rival. Both poetry and language are fashionably thought to have belonged to ritual in early agricultural societies; and poetry, in particular, it has been claimed, arose at first in the form of magical spells recited to ensure a good harvest. Whatever the truth of this hypothesis, it muddies a useful distinction: by the time there begins to be a separate class of objects called poems, recognizable as such, these objects are no longer much regarded for their possible yam-growing properties, and such magic as they may be thought capable of has retired to do its business upon the human spirit and not directly upon the natural world outside.
Formally, poetry is recognizable by its greater dependence on at least one more parameter, the line, than appears in prose composition. This changes its appearance on the page; and it seems clear that people take their suggestions from this changed manifestation, reading poetry aloud in a very various voice from their chronic voice, possibly because, as Ben Jonson said, poetry “speaketh somewhat above a mortal mouth.” If, as a test of this description, people are shown poems printed as prose, it most often turns out that they will read the result as prose simply because it looks that way; which is to say that they are no longer guided in their reading by the balance and shift of the line about the breath as well as the syntax.
That is a minimal definition but perhaps not altogether uninformative. It may be all that ought to be an effort in the way of a definition: Poetry is the way it is because it looks that way, and it looks that way because it sounds that way and vice versa.
So here we know what is Proverbs and what is poetry.
And the conclusion is:-
* that poetry may be hypothetical but the proverb is proven by our ancestors and it can't be changed.
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the proverb is a simple and insightful, traditional saying that expresses a perceived truth based on common sense or experience. poetry, literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and organized for its meaning, sound, and rhythm(a regular repeated pattern of sound or movement).
* Proverbs generally lie in local or universal realities and principles. This is why it is easy to translate and use them in any language. Poetry will also be translated but maybe lies in the imagination.
* poetry can be defined in many different ways. But proverbs are likely to formulate that can be never been changed
So here we know that