11-25-2012, 09:44 AM
So when I argue in another post about how poetry can be prose or speech, and when I say attitude and intention, I mean poetry in the sense of how it affects people and the way they feel and think, and how it gives meaning or challenges meaning. I'm not saying that my intent makes a poem a poem. I'm talking of poetry as the thing that accomplishes those things, no matter what form you're using, and that's true of everyone that is writing with the poetic function, not just me. Poetry enhances life. Poetry is what is capable of making life mean something. Whether it be in verse or prose.
If you love someone, and you would die for them. Logically that's foolish. But poetry makes us really love someone, and not say, "Oh well, it's just a state of mind, or chemical reaction."
We feel poetry abstractly inside of us. And that poetry makes us write and craft poems, or treat people kindly, and all the other good and moral things that we don't need or have to do, but that that poetry inside us gives us the passion and the strength to do.
If you love someone, and you would die for them. Logically that's foolish. But poetry makes us really love someone, and not say, "Oh well, it's just a state of mind, or chemical reaction."
We feel poetry abstractly inside of us. And that poetry makes us write and craft poems, or treat people kindly, and all the other good and moral things that we don't need or have to do, but that that poetry inside us gives us the passion and the strength to do.