# What Is Poetry?

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Attempts to answer the question What is poetry? by comparing a news report and a poem, explaining that the news report is objective, unemotional, and impersonal, and that the poem is subjective, emotional, and highly personal

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1963
- Runtime: 8 min
- By: Film Associates of California, Los Angeles
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/whatispoetry)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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