What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t?
It’s honesty. Fiction and prose essays are much more contrived forms of expression. There is a lot more balancing in those structures of writing that require the writer to wrap truth in such a manner as to fit within its constraints. Those same constraints weaken the experiential aspect of the poem as felt by the reader. A poem is an event and very few types of writing outside this form can accomplish that same sort of thing.
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