Everything Is Discursive Opinion Instead Of Direct

What Destruction Have I Been Blessed By?

It's Not A Love Of Poetry Readings That Attracts Those Who Do Come To Them But Theater.

Even If You Walk Exactly The Same Route Each Time - As With A Sonnet - The Events Along The Route Cannot Be Imagined To Be The Same From Day To Day, As The Poet's Health, Sight, His Anticipations, Moods, Fears, Thoughts Cannot Be The Same.

Poetry Leads Us To The Unstructured Sources Of Our Beings, To The Unknown, And Returns Us To Our Rational, Structured Selves Refreshed. Having Once Experienced The Mystery, Plenitude, Contradiction, And Composure Of A Work Of Art, We Afterward Have A Built-in Resistance To The Slogans And Propaganda Of Oversimplification That Have Often Contributed To The Destruction Of Human Life. Poetry Is A Verbal Means To A Nonverbal Source. It Is A Motion To No-motion, To The Still Point Of Contemplation And Deep Realization.

Besides The Actual Reading In Class Of Many Poems, I Would Suggest You Do Two Things: First, While Teaching Everything You Can And Keeping Free Of It, Teach That Poetry Is A Mode Of Discourse That Differs From Logical Exposition