The Tree of Poetry & The Ocean of Music

Metaphorical Contemplations

Plutarch stated, “The correct and moderate enjoyment of poetry is one in which the young man searches within it for the useful and beneficial” (327).

Poetry and philosophy are seen as “mutually beneficial” — one helping the other and vice versa in the deux ex machina of Latin machinations and proportions that formulate our alphabet (329). How we characterize ideas and themes in succinctness and astuteness is the precise aim of the laborious efforts of crafting a single poem that flows well…