3 Views of Poetry

Three Poets’ view of the Poem: Macleish, Moore and Ferlinghetti. Poetry can supply a reader with a unique insight into the mentality of the poet. However, it is a very distinct experience when one can encounter a poets’ view on what poetry is for the poet. To learn more about engineering, one should ask an engineer. To learn about the world of psychology, one should ask a psychologist. To gain insight into the world of …

…wrought with what metaphysically withstands. For Moore the genuine poem is intimately married with experience. With Ferlinghetti, the poet’s perception and word choice are inextricably bound within the poem. The experience of the poet must ultimately be in a sense “poetic”. The view of the poetry then is connected with the plurality of the poem. Like the comment by Robert Frost on what poetry is, “Poetry is the kind of thing that poets write.”