In my personal opinion, i absolutely love poetry. I love being able to flow through the movement and read the feeling inside and behind the words. In class on tuesday we finished talking about Tintern Abbey and then moved into John Keats writings. I found it interesting yet again how most of the time, we relate suffering and pain most of the time through poetry. It is a theme that normally makes up poetry altogether. Its always about some kind of pain or suffering a person or subject.
In Keats writings, referring to an Ode to a Nightingale. All there seems to be is groaning and complaining about life, all the things that cause pain and suffering. This seems to be a recurring subject: pain and suffering. Why do we have it? Why is it needed? Growing up, my dad always told me that things that are too good to be true are generally never good. Life without suffering would not be life. How could we ever excel? How could we ever learn and be better humans? We couldn't be. There would be no point to life would there?
Without the experience of suffering, learning through our experiences, then changing ourselves to be better, life would seem too good to be true.
I know that i seem to always go back to suffering and pain, but where i am in my own life and growth, I am experiencing pain and suffering and have seen how it has shaped me in my own life and grow stronger and have better understanding of reality. Now bringing this back to poetry, this is exactly what i believe poetry is and even romanticism in itself.
p.s i commented on Katelyn's post (:
I agree that life without pain and suffering is not life. Basically, "you don't know what you've got till it's gone." How can we truly know joy unless we've been in a dark place and come out on the other side? Once you've survived more pain and heartache than you thought you could handle, you become a stronger person because of it. I also agree with you that poetry is a great outlet for suffering!
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