Opinion on Poetry

Opinion on Poetry

What is your personal opinion of poetry?

In my opinion, from a demystified perspective (if that perspective does not itself claim an aesthetic disinterestedness) one would allow poetry an aesthetic respite from the world “if and only if one is attempting to follow an imperative not to stop there,” as Barbara Johnson puts it. Such an irreparable difference, by which every poem remains self-divided rather than homogeneous, duplicitous rather than self-identical, has led to a preference of allegory over symbol. Such a theory, echoing as it does the existentialist's fear of bad faith, is lastly indebted to a ...