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Seven Arguments in Defence of Poetry: Resisting the Madding Noise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Rafael Argullol
Rafael Argullol*
Affiliation:
Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona
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Abstract

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Poetry is essentially connected with silence and may be thought of in that sense as a sort of resistance against the din of the present or rebellion against the commonplace. Alert for the primal sound that travels across cultures, it attempts to express the inexpressible. For poetry is the interplay of possibilities. In treating possibilities lightly, it encourages human beings to inhabit their world differently.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 53 , Issue 1 , February 2006 , pp. 117 - 121
Copyright
Copyright © ICPHS 2006

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