Friday, August 21, 2009

Kubla Khan by Samuel Coleridge


“Poetry is an art…of representing, in words, external nature and human thoughts and affections, both relatively to human affections, by the production of as much immediate pleasure in parts, as is compatible with the largest sum of pleasure in the whole”.

Poetry is more than a text. It is a way of representing your feeling through words. It’s a way of showing other worlds to people who don’t see beyond their nose. But, who is the one in charged of telling these stories? Where are places in which these stories and feelings occurred?
Samuel Coleridge is one of those men who were allowed to tell his own stories, a man who found into Poetry a way of expressing his own self to the rest of the world. The one who could take a pen a write about those other places nobody had seen until he found them.
To me Poetry is a complex art. It wants to express the author’s feeling at the moment of writing but sometimes, it does not find a feeling in the audience’s hearts. This is the reason why I believe there is a book for everybody, there must be a poem for every feeling.

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