Can poetry help do away with the greed in this world?
Here is a quote from RW Emerson: " The use of symbols has a certain power of emancipation and exhilaration for all men. We seem to be touched by a wand, which makes us dance and run about happily, like children. We are like persons who come out of a cave or cellar into the open air. This is the effect on us of tropes, fables, oracles, and all poetic forms"
Would you not agree with Emerson?
The poet is putting new ideas in often symbolic language.
A touching metaphor can change one's life.
If we manage to have more poets writing truly positive ideas in wonderful verses,
it may be quite likely that poetry may save the world from destruction through ever increasing greed.
I have tried myself to make minuscule contribution to that way of thinking by writing a few uplifting poems, I think.
Please visit the page with the poems (by clicking on the link).
Pick a few poems and perhaps let yourself be inspired to write a poem that may contribute to a better world yourself. :)
Here is a quote from RW Emerson: " The use of symbols has a certain power of emancipation and exhilaration for all men. We seem to be touched by a wand, which makes us dance and run about happily, like children. We are like persons who come out of a cave or cellar into the open air. This is the effect on us of tropes, fables, oracles, and all poetic forms"
Would you not agree with Emerson?
The poet is putting new ideas in often symbolic language.
A touching metaphor can change one's life.
If we manage to have more poets writing truly positive ideas in wonderful verses,
it may be quite likely that poetry may save the world from destruction through ever increasing greed.
I have tried myself to make minuscule contribution to that way of thinking by writing a few uplifting poems, I think.
Please visit the page with the poems (by clicking on the link).
Pick a few poems and perhaps let yourself be inspired to write a poem that may contribute to a better world yourself. :)
I like the idea of greed being destroyed but is it realistic?
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand everything is possible...
I think if an idea's time has come, it becomes unstoppable.
DeleteSome things were so unthinkable, so unrealistic
but still they happened.
E.g. Abolition of slavery, segregaton, apartheid, what happened to smoking, to women's rights and so on and on.