[New-Poetry] What is Poetry?

[TheOldMole]

Keats kinda said the same thing.

Jeff Newberry wrote:
> " . . . one of poetry's chief aims is to illumine the walls of 
> mystery, the inscrutable, the unsayable.  I think poetry ought to be 
> taught not as an engine of meaning but as an opportunity to learn to 
> live in doubt and uncertainty, as a means of claiming indeterminacy.  
> Our species is deeply defined by its great surges of reason, but I 
> think it high time we return to elemental awe and wonder."
>
> --Major Jackson, "Does Poetry Have a Social Function," Poetry, January 
> 2007
>
>
> Jeff Newberry
>
> -- 
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