What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can't?
I'm not sure that other forms can't achieve this, but I think poetry does it most consistently: combine brevity with complexity. I marvel at how an accomplished poet can suggest so much with a few words along with creative use of white space to suggest such things as the passage of time, another voice, another angle of view. A good poem also, more deftly than other forms, penetrates to the emotional heart of a subject.
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