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Percy Shelley and Bad Jubies
Percy Shelley took it upon himself to defend poetry. Yet it was not poetry in the most literal sense that he was defending, but language, and by extension, art in all its various forms. A Defense of Poetry comes across at first as mystical gobbledygook. It is just the sort of thing one might expect from a romantic poet; but when we discard the flowery, transcendental attempt at describing the euphoric episodes of the poet and we dig into the substance of Shelley's argument, we will find that the distinction he is attempting to make is not between poetry and other forms of art, but rather between art and entertainment; substance and appearance; revelation and mere distraction.
By C. Rommial Butler4 years ago in Poets
How Does Mental Illness Feel?
I wrote this poem over a year ago (for a mental health awareness poetry contest) but it still holds quite a bit of truth to me and I want people to feel less alone, especially if they are struggling. I did end up winning and got it published in a blog.
By Rene Peters4 years ago in Poets
Things are colder, now.
It aches to love her. In every breath, in each day that passes, I think about our fates — rooted in flesh and fruit and blood — and rend myself anew. I think about her entry into this world. When she slipped from me, red and screaming, in the depths of that great, golden garden.
By Lauren Entwistle4 years ago in Poets
