Pigs or Poems...

I never thought that I would have to decide between the two. I mean both sides have pros and cons to them. For example: Pigs are bacon but at the same time pigs and pig sties smell horrible. Poetry: amazing poets like Poe and Keats not so amazing poets like country song writers. (Yes songs are poems.) We need to look at what a poet is before me make our decision though. According to Kierkegaard, "A poet is an unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but his lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music." That sounds absolutely horrible. Who would want to be a person who gives people join through there own pain? That's a little like a masochist to me. Then people wish him to sing again soon. That would require that he receive more pain and more heartache. No one in their right mind would want to have a life like that. At the same time though would some of our most famous poets really be considered poets according to Kierkegaard? If pain and suffering are required to exist in the life of a poet and their writings tell of such Frost, Seuss, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Longfellow would have to look back at some of their works. All of those poets have poems that don't involve pain or suffering so are they not poets now? Kierkegaard says he'd rather be a swineherd where he is understood by the swine instead of being a poet understood by no one. With the stipulations that poetry has to be about pain and suffering, I think I'll take the mud and slop with Kierkegaard.

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