Some people are so artistic and gifted that whatever they can sense in their day-to-day life can transform into something of worth.
Why is poetry important to one’s world today? Why do poets still exist today?
What Makes A Poet Great?
If you turn on the TV, you can probably see why. Yes, it is primarily a rating war that portrays the world they live in today as chaotic, ugly, violent, and undoubtedly without mercy—that humanity is living in a fractured and divided world. What poets are showing people is a way to empathize with one another. Poet can be described as a counselor helping one to understand one another. They lead one away from hate to love, from violence to mercy, pity, and inspiration.
Some claim to be musicians, songwriters, poets, and even artists. These individuals say they are because they feel they have an exceptional talent or a gift. They try to use their talent to make money and never once stop and do it to feed their soul or look at it for the beauty of the piece. As a renowned poet once said, “to be a true poet, one must have these qualities: the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.” If one tries to write by putting oneself in the view of a poet, he will become a great writer or poet.
He is looking at the quality of a poet. All it is is that one announces that which no man foretold. He is the only trustworthy doctor; he knows and tells; he is the only teller of news. He is the beholder of the ideas. According to Emerson, “all poetry was written before time and that the true poet, when he writes, listens to the region where the air is music, and you hear whispers of poetry and the poet begins to write.” The true poet will write it down accurately and with a delicate ear.
The world people live in is such a work of art, and living here is much of a privilege. A poet can go outside and write about the beauty he sees before him. There is so much one can write. One could write about life experiences, or one could write about nature and its splendor. Nature is like a picture language and is expressed through images or symbols. Nature is a symbol in every part and the whole. Every line one draws in the sand has an expression; nobody is without its spirit or genius. A poet looks at everything in this world as a symbol because each image has many different interpretations and ways to express it. Beauty is much in the eye of the beholder; how one tells a particular item is up to the person, and everyone’s expression would be different. That is what makes poetry so great.
Many poets draw on their personal experiences and learning regarding their writing. The book “Reflections on Mountaineering: A Journey Through Life as Experienced in the Mountains” implies what the author, Alan V. Goldman, has been climbing for over thirty (30) years. The same moral issues confronting people in everyday life are present in the high mountains, only with a sharper stance. Musing on topics such as wonder and awe, the lure of the big mountains, fear and how to confront it, as well as the role of fate, luck, and chance, Alan Goldman makes accessible to the general public the so-called “hidden” truths that mountaineers often experience. Such experiences are presented in eighty-one narrative-style poems, some of which are rhyming and others in prose or blank verse.
Existence Of Poets
Poets exist because of the importance that they could bring people to understand and appreciate the world around them. For some, poets are also described as bridges—an immediate path to becoming better people and being the change in the world. Creating a world is less about tearing each other down and apart and more about coming together and helping one to realize that they are not as different as others think. And despite their differences, they are not alone in their grief, pain, joy, or happiness.
The greatest poets of all time have various vital things in common—their approach to their subject matter, the formal elements and style of their writing, their dedication to their literary goals, and the lasting influence of their work.
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