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Poetry means self-destruction in society. Poetry makes the last stand against all odds in a rearguard action for the future. Even avant-garde poetry does not exist for its own sake. All poetry exists to promote a better future at the cost of cultural warring and discord in the present. The surrealists wanted a certain level of cavalier existence to take root in society, a focused liberty that drained the world of its opacity. The punks wanted anarchy. The blues were made to sing the sorrows of a people who never wanted to see those sorrows again. The price paid for the poet is to no longer play the silent Elizabethan fool. The poet cannot be Ellison’s ''Invisible Man'', untouchable and, likewise, invincible. These curses and blessings are anathema to the poet in this city, as the poet is a prophet. The poet is an Isaiah – singing first of Babylon’s destruction, then of the glory of Zion. | Poetry means self-destruction in society. Poetry makes the last stand against all odds in a rearguard action for the future. Even avant-garde poetry does not exist for its own sake. All poetry exists to promote a better future at the cost of cultural warring and discord in the present. The surrealists wanted a certain level of cavalier existence to take root in society, a focused liberty that drained the world of its opacity. The punks wanted anarchy. The blues were made to sing the sorrows of a people who never wanted to see those sorrows again. The price paid for the poet is to no longer play the silent Elizabethan fool. The poet cannot be Ellison’s ''Invisible Man'', untouchable and, likewise, invincible. These curses and blessings are anathema to the poet in this city, as the poet is a prophet. The poet is an Isaiah – singing first of Babylon’s destruction, then of the glory of Zion. | ||
Warrior-poets shout like banshees because they refuse to see their future destroyed. The poet cannot be a rhetorician, eloquently mindful of the majority audience. The majority audience is planning on killing the poet, after all. The rhetorician has the option of slithering in the shadows, because the rhetorician requires the agreement of the audience to succeed. | |||
The culling of a society is less debase that the sacrifice of its future voices. If, after all, the voices in the moment cannot see the hope of the future, then all will fall to despair and decay. | The culling of a society is less debase that the sacrifice of its future voices. If, after all, the voices in the moment cannot see the hope of the future, then all will fall to despair and decay. |
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