Why bother with poetry? • A great poem is one which, deposited in the bank of memory, can be drawn against throughout life and yield an ongoing interest of insight and awe!
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Why bother with poetry?
• A great poem is one which, deposited in the bank of memory, can be drawn against throughout life and yield an ongoing interest of insight and awe!
Personal growth
• …there is personal growth.
• Often a poem will express an emotion or experience we might be grappling with. Or the emotive nature of poetry will "make real" an experience. Feeling is such a powerful way of knowing.
Emotional intelligence
• We need to confront emotions and to learn the feelings behind actions and events. It is all part of growing into a whole and tolerant person and becoming a tolerant citizen.
Soul food!
• Unlike manipulating the exchange rate or cloning sheep, poetry is good for the soul.
Disrupts complacency
• we can learn more about ourselves. It connects us with our compassion, wonder, empathy and appreciation.
• It can also disturb us, shaking us out of our comfort zone.
Experience distilled
• We need stuff that helps us to interpret, understand and appreciate the extraordinary and the ordinary events in our lives.
• In some ways, poetry is experience distilled.
Beautiful truth
• “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”.
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