Emotional Tension

I sincerely believe that poetry, by its very nature, exists as a release for emotional tension. not just negative emotions either - I theorize that some people have it within their very character to experience life more intensely than others. Some of these people find outlets in athletics or petty bar-fights while the poet tries to let his feelings out delicately, so as not to destroy himself either in the letting go or the withholding of such feelings. Critics of poetry might wonder how someone could spend entire stanzas examining one solitary tree, while to the poet the tree represents so much more. Say, for example, the tree represents the loneliness felt by the poet in his childhood. Yet, even then, there is a distinction between whether this association is subconscious or planned out. In any case, poetry is about human emotion. Because aside from words, what else could it be?

And then I ran out of space on the paper.