"What is poetry?" discusses the Heather McHugh's and Perrine's view of writing poetry and their style of poetry with quotations.

What is Poetry? Two poets, Heather McHugh and Perrine, tries to define poetry by using different types of literature. Heather McHugh defines poetry in an obscure way, using poetic style, while in "What is poetry?", the writer does it in a more realistic way with simple language in an essay. In "What is poetry", the writer tells about the role of poetry in our lives. He divides that role into three categories and he categorizes …

…very earlier poet Bruno has made history, he accomplished writing and reciting poetry exactly the way it should be done. Poetry is one of rare terms that do not have a concrete definition although getting very close to it. McHugh tried to define it within itself. Maybe it is what is thought but not said, or simply the perfection of the art of the words; which we always see examples of it all around us.