What is Poetry?

The simplicity of the question, "What is poetry?" is contradictory in itself because of the not-so-simple fact that the answer is not what anyone would consider simple at all. Because I can simply give someone the Merriam-Webster Dictionary with the following definition;

Po-em: A piece of writing that usually has figurative language and that is written in separate lines that often have a repeated rhythm and sometimes rhyme. 

Yeah, no. An explanation in not that simple at all.

Anyone can pick up a dictionary to find out what another man thinks something is. And the only reason this man is found to be reliable because he has had an education. But things such as poetry in the dictionary can only be individually defined for each individual. And one can only begin to learn how to define it is they produce it.