In this Age of Technology, Poetry Serves no Purpose?

In today’s world where technology is taking over almost everything, so where does poetry stand?The comparison of poetry and technology might seem slightly out of place to some, but there is a great deal that poetry can teach us about living well with technology. By taking the liberty of speaking broadly about the poetic and the technological imaginations, I’d like to say that the poetic imagination offers a needful supplement to the technological imagination. Consider that poetry very often works through metaphor which pushes us to see relationships. With poetry we understand by bringing reality together rather than by dividing it up among us, which we mostly do.

Poetry is important as in many forms because it helps us understand and appreciate the world around us which in return appreciate us. Poetry’s strength lies in the fact of its ability to shed/throw a “sideways” light on the world, so the truth sneaks up on you. No question about it. Poetry teaches us how to live. Poetry dares to open the vulnerabilities of human beings so we can all relate to each other a little better.

POETRY VS TECHNOLOGY In Today’s World
Why is poetry important to our world today? If you turn on the TV, you can probably see why. Yes, it’s mostly a ratings war that portrays the world we live in today as ugly, chaotic, violent and without mercy. That we’re living in a fractured world.So among all this stuff poetry brings on the table some sense of understanding.Moreover in his review of The Information, Nicholas Carr observed that, “What information theorists call redundancy … is also the stuff of poetry.” We would have a very hard time abstracting the meaning of poetry from its form. When Robert Frost was asked to tell what his poem was about in other words, Frost responded that if he could have done so, he wouldn’t have written the poem. With poetry the form is the meaning; at least, it is inseparable from the meaning.Technology can, as Heidegger warned, position the world at our service, ready to be manipulated in the worst sense. It provides resistance in the social world that is otherwise increasingly designed to be frictionless and not relatable at all. In this way, poetry is an antidote to the world’s worst delusions mainly offered by so called technologies.

So summing up, at the very end, I just want to say that the poetic imagination, which is to say the imagination nurtured by poetry, balances the scope of other imagination very well.So we very well concluded that poetry is an integral part of the society.Forget about the age of technology, poetry will continue to serve it’s qualities till ages.

From Which I Flew
Tyree Daye

Say my son’s name, his death was the first thing to break me in

and fly me through town.
If grief has a body it wears his Dodgers cap

and still walks to the corner store to buy lottery tickets and Budweiser 40s.