Arts  & Poetry  

- WHY DO WE READ, WRITE AND LOVE READING AND WRITING?

Do you remember the film "Dead Poets Society" ?  
Dead Poets Society is a wonderful film, obviously filled with a lot of references to English and American poetry. In a famous scene, John Keating (Robin Williams) teaches his students the reason for reading and writing poetry, quoting Whitman's Leaves of Grass :
                                                        
"O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring;
Of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities fill'd with the foolish;
Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)
Of eyes that vainly crave the light—of the objects mean—of the struggle ever renew'd;
Of the poor results of all—of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me;
Of the empty and useless years of the rest—with the rest me intertwined;
The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?"

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Watch the scene...
    🎬      "Why do we read  and write poetry?"
                                               
More pragmatic reasons why poetry is good for our soul :

POETRY is good for developing mental learning.
POETRY is good for developing skills.
POETRY  does help improving ideas.
POETRY is therapeutic for the writer.
POETRY is therapeutic for the reader.
POETRY helps you to understand the significance of words themselves.
POETRY helps you understand people.
POETRY helps you understand yourself.

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