"Compared to the writing of poetry, few other human activities take place so widely, at least in America, absent even a tacit consensus as to why we do them, what good they do, what function they serve.". Certainly at this historical moment, many of us are hungry for poems that look outward, not just into the self or into what seems like another kind of narcissism, a turning away via the knee-jerk (therefore empty) "avant garde" linguistic gesture. Poetry is one of those topics that often gets dismissed as whimsical and unimportant. The only kind of poetry that doesn't have social function is that which tells us how to think about X, Y, or Z, or tells us to buck up, or that the world is a wonderful place. Hello!Very Interesting post! Most people in this world do not read, do not enjoy reading and read only to fulfill concrete educational requirments. She has been... Major Jackson's books of poems are Holding Company (2010, Norton) and Hoops (2006, Norton), both finalists for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry, and Leaving Saturn (2002, University of Georgia Press), which was awarded the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems and was a finalist for the National Book... Emily Warn was born in San Francisco and grew up in California and Detroit. Now it is the poets who soldier on; they have, after all, paying jobs to perform, not for the republic, but for the realm of the personal which has subsumed it. Culture is the distinctive practices and beliefs of a society. But poetry's the High Art which is also democratic: inexpensive, portable, reproducible, quickly consumed (except for epic and very difficult poetry), requiring only literacy to participate. Finally, poetry and occasional poetry in particular never serve the intended purpose of enhancing the emotional gradient of any occasions. What is the significance of the word "Nobody" in the poem? James Merrill's poetry has a social function in the sense of "social event": it tries to produce—often, in the face of mortality, or dejection, or bodily ills—a sense that the poet has friends who get his jokes, who share his sense of things, who respond in kind. The work, "the curse-gift" of the poet, is to tell the story of a person who has no story other than the story of relations. But they'll likely never mean as much in the public sphere, where content definitely does matter. This is a principle deduced from the nature of culture, not from the nature of the state. PS: Sorry for my bad english, I'v just started to learn this language ;)See you! Art of witness is essential. Yet if we reject tangled relations to insist on the isolated, fragmented self of modern consciousness, then we remain self-absorbed and self-limiting—and certainly incapable of responding to the woman standing with Ahkmatova in the prison line who asked, "Can you describe this?" If there are universal truths about the communicative functions in poems—truths about all good poems, not just about "The Mill-Race"—they are so universal that they do not count as social, by my lights: they concern communication among just two persons at a time, whether the two meet face-to-face, or whether implicit author and genuine reader live thousands of years apart. (Think, for instance, of D.A. She earned degrees from Kalamazoo College and the University of Washington. Now, I have no idea if this poem will "endure," but it was immensely gratifying that it was "of use" beyond my own desire to write it. No question about it. (I could have used ASL interpreters, or oncologists.) The kind of poetry written to make us feel better, for example, after 9/11, is pro-establishment falsification, for it lets us pull the comforter back over our heads and go on sleeping. Classical literary works serve as a food for thought and encourage imagination and creativity. The difference between solace porn and sex porn is that solace pornographers seldom seem aware that they're making pornography. Poems are necessary because they honor the unknown, both in us and in the world. Using poetry at such times as funerals, weddings, romantic interludes, expressing sentiments to friend and family only serve the purpose making people believe the poet is merely a flattering synchophant or an overemotional needy weakling! The title poem of Howl and Other Poems is key, and its opening line famously defines the Beat Generation: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked." 4 Enjoyment matters. Certainly many poems—one might say all good poems—have this effect. The ‘social, historical and cultural’ contexts can consist of a variety of factors. We avidly read poetry written about repression in other countries (Milosz, Ahkmatova, Darwish, Celan), and yet American poets who write of repression (Cornelius Eady's Brutal Imagination, for instance), we call—often with a slight sneer—"political." Stephen Burt: I hope I share Emily Warn's passionate optimism about the scope of our art form, but I either fail to understand, or cannot believe, her argument. I believe 9/11 solace poetry has given support, however indirectly and unintentionally, to the Bush administration. Stephanie (also Steph; formerly Stephen) Burt is a poet, literary critic, and professor. Kathmandu Valley has served as the country’s cultural metropolis since the unification of Nepal in the 18th Century. Poets, he's saying, weld new relations and add new forms to the world. Theodor Adorno's social (and antisocial) theories demanded that composers, and writers, protect that "isolated, fragmented self of modern consciousness" against the false claims of a bad social whole. Of plumbing and carpentry? This in turn would give literature a true social function and not cause offense. Is healing really the domain only of prescriptive drugs? I'm also disturbed by Emily's romantic scenario relating to Guantanamo prisoners. Milton's sonnet against the Long Parliament). Poets do not know how their poems will be used in the future. Modern society isn't just a few billion people. Use is not function. Does the social function of poetry vary so wildly that we cannot generalize about it? "Them" seldom includes "us." When you read a lot of contemporary poetry, you discover that the presumed or stated, implicit or explicit, social function of poetry (if any) varies wildly with the poet. Indeed, as Daisy says, "we are all on the bus." The capital city Kathmandu enjoys a rich tapestry of cultures blending to form a national identity. We might begin by intending to be merely useful (I never have). It's easy to talk about some "them" for whom poetry is useful. Here are some things you could consider in placing a text in ‘context’: the life or biography of the poet; other works that the poet has written; the historical period in which that poem was written; the place or event that gave rise to the … Our social reality is thus enlarged to include relations and facts that have been obscured (not yet discovered) or repressed. If we use any more conventional, more restrictive senses for "social"—for example, "having to do with a particular society taken as a whole," or even "having to do with people in large groups"—then there is no social function which all good poems have. A long line of poets and thinkers have made great claims about poetry's social use. Over centuries, the poem also says, these workers have raised cathedrals, invented art. Inevitably, someone here, or in a bomb shelter in northern Israel or southern Lebanon, will turn to poetry to read at a funeral service, or to jump-start terrorized lives and pulverized communities. Martín Espada, John Yau, and Nikki Finney are just a few of many poets who write poetry that "embraces experience in its full complexity," yet their books never receive a nod in Poetry. They were revolutionaries opposing the system. Emily Warn seems to argue that content supplies poems' utility. What I also read in this exchange is a distasteful cynicism about poetry's ability—its responsibility—to affect lives. I used to write poetry. The function of War and Peace is greater than its many uses. “Feminism”, Ashia Ajani, Tolu Obiwole, Abby Friesen-Johnson, and Alexis Rain Vigil. For the record, I never feel guilty getting paid, ever. The poem also demonstrates the student's understanding of the meaning behind the mask. It is truly another language exclusively for the writer and the reader. Late Merrill—the Merrill of "Self-Portrait in Tyvek Windbreaker"—wonders whether his poetry might resound beyond that social group. They have banished themselves from the republic, having abdicated their role as loud-mouth rousers of weeping and gnashing. As stated in the quote by C.S. The quikest way to lose the respect of friends, family and colleagues is to write poetry for them. A ceremony allows us to acknowledge a transition or a rite of passage – a new beginning or sometimes, as a conclusion to an event in our lives. Is it because it is too social? Learn how to write a poem about Social media and share it! Such antagonism directed at people through the use of condescening, flowery language make people feel the poet/literature is challenging them with complicated ideas and emotions, most of which are of no use to sensible hardworking people and should generally be avoided. We are living in a world of poetries. Exposing oneself to good literary works, is equivalent to providing one with the finest of … Instead, what we have been cultivating, probably since the Romantics, is a vision of the self, either as lonely and overly sentimental, or as beleaguered and fractured, and thus modern. Oral poetry is a wide subject that ranges from American 'folk-songs', Eskimo lyrics or popular songs, to the heroic poems of Homer and distinct epic composers in Asia and the Pacific. Will this poem end drudgery? So too poetry. Daisy Fried: People who talk about poetry's social utility often concentrate on content. The only literature that should be allowed to exist is that which aggrandizes whichever government regime is in power at any given time in order to induce patriotic rapture. It is a vehicle for cultural survival. But we should beware of using witness poetry as some cliché of the triumph of the human spirit, providing ourselves with a sop to make us feel better about our government's victims. Once a reader has fully internalized the poem's machinations, she collects a chorus within her and is transformed. I'm not pooh-poohing poetry of witness, quite the opposite. There are good 9/11 poems. If you're crawling to poems on your hands and knees, as I once heard a famous poet remark—in my view, you're not crawling to poetry. Do other forms of art and work carry out this same task? Yes. The gaiety of great poetry reinforces and deepens our humanity. If so, let me add another: one of poetry's chief aims is to illumine the walls of mystery, the inscrutable, the unsayable. The poet is there on the bus, we are there, we are all in the mill-race. "I open each session with your poem." Such displays may be emotionally or politically useful, but who needs them? Yes, there is terrible suffering; we are all going to die. Poetry binds solitudes. Poetry's social function comes not from what it means but from what it is. One only wishes more poets took on with greater awareness the higher calling of their art, which has always had embedded within it a vision of the social. The group members are well versed and do readings, some have been published. It is to facilitate communication and understanding on the deepest level, to resist tranny and oppression, to commune on the deepest levels, and to sing for all that is just and good in the world. Poetic insight, he wrote, "does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path or circuit of things through forms, and so making them translucent to others." Our species is deeply defined by its great surges of reason, but I think it high time we return to elemental awe and wonder. I continue to maintain that poetry cannot be defined in terms of a social function at all, even if (and here Emily Warn and I agree) most of the great modern poets do project visions of self which imply paradoxical communities of solitude, social in one sense, antisocial in another. My apprenticeship as a poet was in one of many workshops started in cities all over america by the extraordinary poet, Etheridge Knight, whose poetry was so connected to breath and the body that once you'd heard him speak his poems, you would forever after hear his voice when you read the poems from the page. "I run a weekly group for abusive men," he said. That's pretty social. See if you can catch the punch line in Stephen Crane's "A Man Said to the Universe." They won't discombobulate the young, especially young soldiers, whom Plato warned off poetry lest it remind them of their dirty little fear of death. Plumbers (or interpreters or oncologists) do something which we can easily describe, and for which most of us understand the demand. These might seem like grand dreams, but it is just such a belief in the power of poetry that spurs my pen to action, whether I am getting paid or not. Personally, I find the cynicism and disdain for such poets, even mildly detected here, overly familiar and somewhat nauseating. As Celan wrote, "I am you / if I am." Our society is declining (see How to diagnose if a community is declining ) so our use of language is declining, which makes it difficult to communicate simple ideas in prose. Compared to the writing of poetry, few other human activities take place so widely, at least in America, absent even a tacit consensus as to why we do them, what good they do, what function they serve. An aubade is a poem about the arrival of the morning. Because I am a woman, working class, Native, writing about my life is instantly political.So it is for anyone who isn't white, male, able-bodied, straight, middle-class... For those of us whose history is not represented, or is distorted, or downright lies, poetry is a place to say what is true. Whoever has read this far, will now know perfectly well the social use of poetry--which is to resist all of what was written above. To understand this, it is important to recognise that texts, such as poems, are not created in a vacuum but are the product of many influences that affect the ways in which writers write and the ways in which we read and interpret their work. True revolutionary poets are stripped of their laureateships or never reviewed in these pages, for some reason probably having to do with the worn-out argument of lack of aesthetic worth or little merit. We all know that time is limited, and teachers have to make instructional choices. This in turn incites the animosity of normal people who feel they are being looked down upon by people who do not work for a living(work meaning physical labor and commerce). The poem captured the imagination of writers and artists who were alienated from the dominant social forms of Dwight Eisenhower's America. High school seniors Sam and Catherine will tell you what they have gotten ou… I agree with Stephen Burt that if we prescribe a single ethical purpose to poetry, if we write toward an ideal, then we stymie the possibility that each poem can address a question raised by particular conditions. 1 History matters. I would add that poetry takes you into the presence of mystery. I mean this seriously. Content matters—poetry is far more than a formal game—but does not supply utility. Whitman did not know his work would inform a gay liberation movement. It is this possibility, this hope, that makes poetry as necessary as a paycheck. A type of communication and expressiveness in a written form, poetry liberates one from sufferings, oppression and suppression on one hand, while revealing love, happiness and pleasure on the other. Daisy Fried: How about a moratorium on using plumbers and other "common" people as mythical readers of poetry? Eventually it becomes political necessity. What about reading my great-grandmother's love letters, reading Studs Terkel's oral histories, contemplating Brancusi's "Bird in Flight"? They would likely be committed to mental institutions for claims of having visions, of the socially relevant and supernatural variety; at least one would be labeled a terrorist or terrorist-sympathizer for speaking against the state and/or professing anti-Christian beliefs; another ostracized for brazenly exercising self-proclaimed, progressive forms of natural love. That's a social function in the sense of "social good," even of "social policy." Whether as a form of witness, as a medium which dignifies individual speech and thought, as a repository of our cumulative experiences, or as a space where we "purify" language, poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. Ms. Hardworking Roto-Rooter could care less about your dithyrambs. I solve problems with its lines—not just their lexicon, but the life breathed into form by rhythm, rhyme or meter: a riddle; a moment of joy. Poetry is intensely valuable to me and it always has been. Why is poetry called to duty during these crises (Major Jackson)? Your, Raiul Baztepo. Our current—our late-Romantic—understanding of poetry (by which all poems are really or fundamentally lyric) posits this binding-together through language alone as poetry's chief goal: poetry becomes that way of using language in which that goal (rather than, say, exposition or persuasion) takes center stage. Second, hers appears to be a sense of "social" by which "social" denotes any experience or quality shared among two or more people, friends or strangers, living or dead. I still love these quotes that inspired me as a young poet: Louis Turco says that poetry is "saying something superbly" -, Galway Kinnell says that poetry "cultivates a tenderness towards existence", Joy Harjo says that "if I believed poetry made nothing happen, I wouldn't write it.". Rae Armantrout's poetry, for example, seeks—at times, it seems to despair of finding—a social function we might identify as the inculcation of skeptical thinking. "The Mill-Race" ends on the word "salt," ("but it's mostly the miller's curse-gift, forgotten of God yet still grinding, the salt-/mill, that makes sea, salt"). Poems about Social media at the world's largest poetry site. Of course Ms. Hardworking Roto-Rooter reads poetry, at least casually, like anyone who reads at all. Poetry can make none of these happen. No. That's personal—and therefore social. Take, for example, bad 9/11 poems, at which I do "sniff the air." If that is what Emily means, I accept her claim, with two demurrers. Emily Warn: Stephen Burt's logic is airtight. Asking whether poetry is social is like asking if poetry can be political, a question which is raised regularly every 5 to 10 years or so. The claim that the Romantics weren't interested in politics or society (Major Jackson) can be disproved by anyone who reads Shelley, Byron, or Blake. Most poets must admit that they would cherish being seen by their community of friends and relatives as "functional," the voice who sanctions and gives formal expression to their lives in verse, who serves as the repository of their thoughts and experiences, much like the West African djali or griot. Anne Winters's "The Mill-Race," about office workers in lower Manhattan, contains virtuoso description of the urban scene: workers, weather, light, limos of the bosses, buses of the employees. Ammons's poems about inlets, woods, and garbage.) An individual poet may think she knows such things about poetry, but put two or more poets (let alone critics) in a room, and their so-called knowledge may reveal itself as clashing opinions or axioms—even though "social," as the antithesis of "individual," implies some ground of agreement, something shared. I hope this does not sound like an exercise in ambiguities. In our society the use of poetry is now a sign of delusion. Emily should reread the very lines she quotes if she thinks this poem is about workers "preserv(ing) a shred of self." Thank you for such interesting resource! Is it this capacity that will help us, better than ammo or dollars, find a way through these harrowing times? This is poetry's social value. What can be commonly said about a skeptic who turns for clarity to a Rae Armantrout poem, a plumber who searches on Yahoo for a wedding toast, a harried person who seeks in poetry refuge from a grueling job, or a Guantanamo prisoner who, denied pen and paper, uses pebbles to scratch poems on Styrofoam cups? Ceremonies are filled with ritual. We are more likely to experience great visual art in the presence of others (in museums); we might say such experience connects us more evidently than can the silent reading of verse whose authors we have never met. Maya Angelou, Billy Collins, as well as the more politically-minded poets like Adrienne Rich, Sonia Sanchez, and Palestinian-American poet Suheir Hammad all reach beyond mere aestheticism and challenge accepted notions of the above solipsistic poet toiling away at a few columns of free verse. Why do we, as poets, find this function of poetry so regrettable? Is there some function we should call "social," in some ordinary meaning of that term, which all good poems, and only poems (no non-poems: no sculptures, for example) attain? Poetry, as Barrett makes clear, does not exist outside of social and cultural realities; the goal of cultural poetics is to explore the two as always intertwined. A poem's content matters very little to that utility. And students I've had, not writing students, but those non-English majors taking perhaps the only English class they'll ever take, have found themselves reflected in poems, much to their surprise. If a reading public feels consoled or seeks "a momentary stay against confusion," and poetry provides them this, why deem such works of art failures? i would greatly appreciate itthank youBeka, Originally Published: December 28th, 2006. I liked how it compared culture to a flowing river, not stagnated water. The oral tradition can take many forms, including epic poems, chants, rhymes, songs, and more. All, except Keats maybe, would be ignored and cast aside as personae non gratae by the critical, academic, and literary establishments: no Guggenheim for you, Mr. Shelley. (One reason we keep seeking a "social function" despite this lack of agreement: those of us who make a living through poetry—by teaching other people how to write more of it, or by writing about it—often feel a bit guilty for getting paid.) All over the world people celebrate through ceremony, with many ceremonies having cultural or religious significance. Poetry is a way to understand how language and symbol systems work. Poems such as "The Mill-Race" make us aware of the social conditions that shape our relations; their language helps us dwell in, puzzle out, and feel the conditions and the relations, no matter how terrible, making a change in them more possible. Culture is all about where we live, our language, the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the … Well, what is the social function of ER nursing? Here Why should we make them of poetry in general? The student's poem reflects the cultural context of the mask. Emerson named the current flowing through things divine—a fire our bodies and poems externalize. So it makes it even harder, if not impossible, in poetry. Though its subject matter and politics are both clear and attractive, content has very little to do with why the poem is extraordinary. So the first question is, what does this mean? C.It has no significance in the poem. I'm only sorry more poets don't know how to fix toilets, myself included. But anyway, let's face it: were Daisy's nineteenth-century poet-revolutionaries alive today, they would be unemployed and writing in obscurity. In a highly thought-provoking piece, the Poetry Foundation interviewed a few poets to probe their thoughts concerning the societal role of poetry. Housman did not know A Shropshire Lad would speak to people suffering the horrors of WWI. Major Jackson: Daisy Fried grossly misreads my critique of excessive egoism in Romantic poetry—which an even closer reading of literary history would reveal I mostly cop from Eliot and other anti-Romantic critics. I would argue that unless you are writing and putting your poems into a drawer, or throwing them out onto a pond like Li Po, or burning them, then of course they are social, and of course they are political. Some people devote their lives to Art Song. Such ontological feelings of fragmentation and alienation, which often led to a more pessimistic and bleak outlook on life as manifested in representative modernist poems such as T.S. That realization is that poetry and literature in general serve no true social function and have no intrinsic value (and for that matter art as well). Quality does. Some of the best topics to write social issue poetry about are: education, drugs, crime, racism, population control, government, neglect, abuse, war (political, religious, societal), sexism, violence, censorship, welfare, eating disorders, same-sex marriage and disease. Ah, but poetry binds our solitudes, creating this self-encounter which becomes paradoxically social, through language alone. In particular, the poem makes use of sensory images (i.e., sight, touch, taste, smell, and sound) to describe the mask and mimics the tone or mood of the mask's original purpose. ELIOT CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ESSAY “THE SOCIAL FUNCTION OF POETRY” SUBMITTED BY: Poetry is so important because it helps us understand and appreciate the world around us. Today we discussed how people view culture, and what makes people ‘cultured’ or ‘culturally trained’. Stephen Burt: What is the social function of poetry? 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