Introduction to poetry

Since man was born,people have been talking about poetry in different terms.It can be a ballad,lyric,song or what so ever. Poetry has a natural flow of emotions and feelings.But the feelings alone would not have been enough.There must be always a fact that inspired the poets to write poems.There are reasons like natural beauty of the environment,social criticisms,ethnic conflicts,racial desegregation etc.Different poets have written on different themes. The theme depend on the fact as well as the period in which the poem composed.