Stephen Burt : National Poetry Month and onset of spring both great reasons to try poetry . He says poets have long explored the warring emotion that change of season brings . His poem `` Sailing to Byzantium '' asks the masters of an ancient art to `` gather me/ He says beauty , life , death collide . `` It is spring ! We are going to die , '' wrote Louise Gluck . Burt : Poems help us express feeling . They can be a way for people who feel sad or angry about their lives to find some kind of comfort in poems like " I am not dead / Try it !
Stephen Burt : National Poetry Month and onset of spring both great reasons to try poetry . He says poets have long explored the warring emotion that change of season brings . He says beauty , life , death collide . `` It is spring ! We are going to die , '' wrote Louise Gluck . Burt : Poems help us express feeling . They can be a way for people who feel sad or angry about their lives to find some kind of comfort in poems like " I am not dead / Try it !