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poetry noun [U]. B1 âpoems in âgeneral as a âform of âliterature: âcontemporary poetry and âprose She âstarted writing poetry at a âyoung âage. âº a very âbeautiful or âemotional âquality: This âfilm has a âsavage poetry and âbrilliance. More examples. 1  There is a â spiritual â dimension to her poetry.
The I is the archetypal reader, and the poem is about what poetry does to him as he reads it. (Poetry is a cause and has effects.) It changes him. The reader takes the poem in--through his mouth, not his eyes or ears. Eating it, metaphorically, he reverts to primitive type, metamorphically. He becomes an animal, or animal-like so that Eating Poetry is, in a sense, Strand's portrait of the reader as young dog.