Tuesday 19 July 2022

Joanne Epp : coda

Why is poetry important?

One thing I’ve come to appreciate about poetry is how it brings so many elements together: the meanings of words, alone and together; their sound and rhythm; emotion and ideas expressed in musical language and sensory images. Because of this, it’s possible to be drawn into a poem without entirely understanding it, and I think that is part of why poetry is important, because it can appeal to our minds (and even our bodies) in so many ways. And poetry is important because of the ways in which it can take us by surprise: by expressing something we didn’t know we were feeling, or by showing us what we didn’t know was there.

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