POETRY/PHILOSOPHY/LITERATURE
Poetry, The Unbroken Thread of Language
From its early stages, poetry and poets heavily influenced philosophy’s linguistics, concepts, and imaginative growth.
A degree in English literature taught me that each age produces its kind of language, giving us three types of verbal expression, one of which is the poetic use of language.
But in the age of “me-first” contemporary liberalism,’ the wisdom that some of the greatest minds across the centuries remains ignored in our modern pursuit of self-fulfillment, economic growth, and technological advancement. Exposing such trends as symptoms of a profound cultural crisis in which we claim a false superiority over the past — grasping at the thin, bare threads in our hands while we still can help work our way back to tradition.
From its early stages, poetry and poets heavily influenced philosophy’s linguistics, concepts, and imaginative growth. Questions — explored by ancient and contemporary thinkers — reveal how some of the most moral problems are as fresh and relevant to our age as they were to our…
