Title: The Psychology of Poetry: Understanding the Perspective of a Poem - Penlighten
Headings: The Psychology of Poetry: Understanding the Perspective of a Poem
The Psychology of Poetry: Understanding the Perspective of a Poem
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Content: Finding inspiration and motivation, uplifting our spirits are some other good reasons for opening a poetry book. Certain poems can impregnate us with a sense of meaning and hope, or can help us gain insights on different issues. By turning us into creators, poetry connects us to our internal resources and changes our point of view. And even if poetry is not always a veil that could help us camouflage all the bad and ugly things in this world, it can still help us transcend them and can make us more conscious. In February 2009 when the recession seemed to paralyze Guadeloupe and Martinique, several scholars among whom we could mention Patrick Chamoiseau and Édouard Glissant, said that there wasn’t any economical crisis, but rather a poetic crisis (“une crise poétique”). They wrote a political manifesto under the form of a poem. Writing, reading or reciting poetry (out loud) could indeed be some forms of self-therapy. It can be a form of escapism, or a catharsis, a means by which we purge our inner lives from the ugly aspects of the world we live in. Like it? Share it!