BS: Why do we need poetry?

Subject: BS: Why do we need poetry?
From: skipy
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 05:26 PM

A bastard thread yes, but a serious one at the same time!

Skipy
whippy
nippy!

Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry?
From: Teresa
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 05:43 PM

We need poetry, both good and bad,
So the Vogons' existence would have had
A place to fester and be counted,
Or adams' plot would have ... dismounted ...

Hmmm. Well, we do need poetry, just not that.. Or McGonnagal's. I mostly write non-rhyming type, as you can probably tell. :D

Wondrous worlds of written word,
Spilling and splashing in a feverish fervor
Of literary lust!

My humbel self, 1/1987 :)

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry?
From: Amos
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 06:09 PM

We need poetry because it is one of the few things in existence that produces a frequency capable of touching the soul through its defenses without harming it. These few things -- love, music and good laughter being three others -- are all that keep us from suffoicating into black, lost cinders of hopeless apathy at the hands of an indifferent entropic universe.

But with them, anything is possible.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry?
From: Mr Red
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 06:16 PM

'cos I can't spell poverty
and that is a novelty.
Yt worse because I'm
useless at assonant paronomasia (and scansion for tha matter)
but I can do poetry in mime..............

Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry?
From: Micca
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 06:53 PM

They buried
Edgar Allan
on the lea,
beneath a sapling
for all to see
and fom his dust
made Poe a tree

Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 07:36 PM

We don't, but we LIKE it.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry?
From: Teresa
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 08:17 PM

Amos, yes.

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 09:29 PM

We need poetry because words are the best thing the human race has ever come up with and poetry isn't just words. Poetry is words squared.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry?
From: John O'L
Date: 03 Mar 05 - 10:03 PM

Poetry is the music of words.

We need it to give perspective to all the other rubbish we say and write.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry?
From: skipy
Date: 04 Mar 05 - 04:34 PM

Kipling / Bellamy,
Thats why!
Just one generation apart, if only they could have worked together!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 04 Mar 05 - 09:10 PM

Poetry is
Only the
Evolution of
Thoughts,
Reading, in these words,
Your own.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry?
From: Amos
Date: 04 Mar 05 - 09:26 PM

Nice turn, BB!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry?
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 05 Mar 05 - 06:18 PM

Without poetry, there would only be a tune to our ballads and folksongs.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry?
From: beardedbruce
Date: 06 Mar 05 - 03:56 AM

from Rilke...


poetry

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"For verses are not, as people imagine, simply feelings (those one has early enough), -they are experiences. For the sake of a single verse, one must see many cities, men and things, one must know the animals, one must feel how the birds fly and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning."
-Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge



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"Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains."
-Letters to a Young Poet

Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry?
From: GUEST,Guest Pip
Date: 06 Mar 05 - 04:36 AM

Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history.

Aristotle 389-322 BC


Music dwells in the soul, but a poem lives in the heart.

Anon.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 06 Mar 05 - 05:06 AM

why do dogs howl?

Ezra Pound said that poetry is an equation for an emotion. Some peole (we call poets) have skill and inclination to find the words which summon up their emotions in others.

The whole point is that our lives and our very existence is mysterious in its origin. Only people who will commit to religious and philosophical explanations of our existence find life a closed book with prosaic explanations for everything.

I think it was Wallace Stevens who was asked what one of his poems was about was about, and he answered if I knew that I should not have needed to write it. there ia point at which mere prose and the procession of stated facts about our life doesn't tell our story and thats where the poetry comes in.

In the poets words we find expression of the unique nature of being a human being, which is somehow recognisable. And we are not so lonely, not so much on our own. Less need to howl.

Sometimes, like in Dylan Thomas, we just get swept waway by the exuberance and vitality of the minute he expresses. And its fun.

all the best

Big Al Whittle

Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry?
From: Amos
Date: 06 Mar 05 - 11:45 AM

Why do poets howl?

A

Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 06 Mar 05 - 03:41 PM

I saw the best minds of my generation....etc.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do we need poetry?
From: Amos
Date: 06 Mar 05 - 03:53 PM

Yes, yes....?

And the Tao that can be described
Is not the Tao.

And why do poets howl, their ball
Shaking in the cold wind of indifferent
And entropic rivers
in the time-fold?

Why do they not learn
They need to adjust?