To Read Poetry

To understand poetry you must read poetry By External Journalist It is said that a teacher from the countryside once asked Mario Quintana: What should I read to understand Shakespeare? And the poet answered her without hesitation: Shakespeare, my daughter. Contrary to popular belief, things in the world are not as understandable as we would like them to be. Much of the events that surround us belong to a field never explored by words, that is, in a way they are unspeakable phenomena. The poet is one who, aided by keen sensitivity, manages to penetrate the mystery of things and describe them from an unusual perspective. It is he who invites us to look again and again at events to which we no longer attach importance, who urges us to carefully observe everything that over time we have been relegating to the list of unquestionable and known things. He knows how to break the silence of the natural laws to which we are subject to create a kind of aesthetic miracle, called a poem, which has the power to rescue our intuitive knowledge. Because true poetry is that which strikes us on target, that captures us, that moves and enlightens us entirely, that makes us understand with the senses what we do not understand with reason. Of all the artists of the word, the poet is the one who reads the world most freely. By exercising his freedom so completely, he accomplishes great feats, such as: inventing what doesn't exist, animating objects, generating myths, conceiving images, questioning the indisputable, communicating the incommunicable, in short, increasing a little more the universe. Like most creators, the poet is a restless individual, a perplexed being before human nature, a great questioner without answers, a pessimist by vocation, but above all a solidary creature. He needs to exercise his freedom through others, sharing his vast discoveries (or his insignificant strokes), pointing out directions (or shuffling paths), comforting the anguish of men with beauty and generosity. By impregnating language to bring poetry to life, the poet creates a unique object that only acquires meaning if contemplated by others, as his art consists in establishing a relationship of affection and complicity between his world and the world of whom reads. PS. Mário Quintana Was a famous Brazilian poet, This is a transcript of a TRIBUNA article. TRIBUNA site . Work Presented by alkas poetry,but not written