The Poetic Imagination

The way I best define poetry is to imagine a world without it. We’ve heard the cliché “you don’t know what you got till it’s gone,”and it is rooted in truth- we often understand something’s value more acutely in its absence.What is a world without poetry?Poetry is an outlet to set free our innermost thoughts.

The thoughts we set free in our poem are captured by others, who are challenged to see the world in a new light.

Without poetry, we would lose this valuable avenue.

The social function of poetry is that it creates community, and often spoken word poetry events open up platforms to discuss important social issues.

Poetry broadens imagination as it forces us to explore our experiences in this complex world and leads to novel insights and perspectives.

To quote Albert Einstein: Imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.