Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives.
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.
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