What is poetry? Is it going out of style? Is poetry even still relevant in this society?
Of course poetry is still relevant! Not only is it incredibly relevant, it is necessary; an essential fragment of today's society. It can reach and affect a wide array of people and, for some, it is their whole life. They live and breathe poetry. Their world revolves around the formation of poems.
Poetry is an expression of deep feelings, emotions, and aesthetics that leaves its writer extremely open and vulnerable to the feedback and judgment of the world. It can help release all of the bottled up emotions that can build up inside of you during hard times. Poetry can even help people build relationships amongst others. It forms a kind of community; a special bond between two or more souls that is special and very much unique and unlike any other kind of bond.
Poetry is a piece of art that contains emotional sincerity. It has a profound insight that gives a poet the ability to idealize his or her reality and see the world around them in a particular way. The poet can express their feelings to be represented in such a way as to delight all of the people reading.
Poetry can help you deal with intense feelings such as anger, frustration, headache, heartbreak, hopelessness, depression, isolation, and ignorance. It does not have to be negative though! Poetry can also celebrate, encourage, beautify the mundane things, and instill noble thoughts in us. It can produce amazing feelings in us of nostalgia and euphoria.
I am sure we can all agree that the average person in this day and age is not at all very likely to go out, pick up a book of poetry, and read it (unless they have to for class). It is just not something that is done very often anymore.
This does not mean that poetry is going out of style though; just changing in popular mediums. It is still a beautiful concoction of intense feelings and intricate wording. Every generation has creates their own form of poetry. My generation has been giving a large awareness to power that is the art of poetry slams and conventions in recent years.
Poetry is never going to go out of style; but, like everything beautiful in the world, it is going to go through some changes to fit the society built around it. Change is not necessarily good or bad; it is just different. If there is one thing that is certain, it is that there will always be someone out there writing some form of poetry for all of us to admire and cherish for years to come.
