One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.
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In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.
By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
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