That being said, when consulting the text, Literature: Craft & Voice by Nicholas Delbanco and Alan Cheuse, the fear did not necessarily disappear, but I found motivation and justification in the act of analyzing poetry. Throughout the text, there are several larger font, red quotes spread about poetry; not about individual poems but rather the entire subject of poetry. They all allude to the ideas of why poetry is written, why we should read poetry and what it does for us as a society.
"Reading good poetry helps a person feel less lonely. It's the evidence
that someone else has felt what we feel, knowing what we know" (592).
(Taken from a conversation with Jane Hirschfield)
I think that this can be said concerning all forms of art (literature, visual, auditory; art is infinite and UNBOUND). We all try to make out and understand this world and this life, never fully knowing. Expression of one's self and I agree with Jane Hirschfield, that the creation of art is evidence of us trying to make sense of this world, making what we know evident. I have always had a connection with the arts, but I would say poetry has been my weakest link in all my relationships. Relating this idea that is mentioned by Hirschfield to poetry creates this desire in me to focus on it and learn it as it is another major form of ART.
