Sentence examples for function of poetry from inspiring English sources
"WH Auden says, 'The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us'.
And if a primary function of poetry is to expand and enrich the scope of a native language, Stevens has no equal in American English except Walt Whitman.
In his work two impressions predominate: that only the self is important and that the function of poetry is to preserve moments of extreme sensation and unique impression.
PAGE A20 New Twist in MySpace Case A16 obituaries DONALD FINKEL, 79 He was a noted American poet whose work teemed with curious juxtapositions, which in their unorthodoxy helped illuminate the function of poetry itself.
Donald Finkel, a noted American poet whose work teemed with curious juxtapositions, which in their unorthodoxy helped illuminate the function of poetry itself, died on Nov. 15 at his home in St . Louis
Had leaf-blowers been invented a couple of generations ago, this is a metaphor that could well have been used by the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, who in high-Romantic fashion devoted many a discourse to the proposition that the function of poetry is to save the Earth from the consequences of an instrumental or technological attitude to nature.
This deeply researched, wide-ranging study illuminates the social and cultural functions of poetry in the period from 1880 to 1950, when ordinary Americans recited poems in classrooms, churches and citizenship ceremonies.
I do this in order to get them to think about the nature and purpose of poetry, the different functions it has served for different people in different times.
For a recent discussion of the educational function and correctness of poetry and the knowledge of the poets, see Hatzistavrou (2011).
"Heidegger has a beautiful essay--really a lecture--on Trakl and language in which he talks about the naming and calling functions of the poetry, by which he means that we hear the naming and calling of the poem in our physical space, but the poetry brings the things named and called no nearer to us.
