[New-Poetry] What is Poetry?

[Jeff Newberry]

It's funny that you mention Keats, Mole.  I've been reading through his
letters.  I'll try to track down the passage you reference.  I'm pretty sure
that I know what you're talking about.

Jeff Newberry

On 7/1/07, TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org> wrote:
>
> 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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longer than knowing even wonders."
—William Faulkner, Light in August


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