Title: What’s the True Purpose of Poetry? - BahaiTeachings.org
Headings: What’s the True Purpose of Poetry?
What’s the True Purpose of Poetry?
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Content: rejoice! Above all, it says to us: be! We cannot turn our backs on art. Art heals. - from a talk by Roger White, Bring Chocolate, in The Language of There
Whether one is highly or minimally educated, literate or illiterate, poetry can affect them: Even beginning readers can know if a poem appeals to them…because it enables them to see things in ways they’ve never seen before. For example: since I read James Reeves’ poem about the snail as a “toppling caravan” I’ve never been able to look at snails the same way… The poet’s job, you see, is not to give us straight, encyclopedic fact but to tell us something new or to tell something old in a new way—to give us fresh images. – Myra Cohn Livingston, in an interview with Michael Cart
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement. –