Hello readers, this week we have read and explored the poetry especially the poem of Juliana Spahr’s “This Connection of Everyone with Lungs.” Juliana Spahr’s poem was the first poem that I read in this year, and it has been two years since I read my last poem. Throughout the history, the genre of poetry has the long history. People enjoyed reading of poetry as modern people read novels and fictions. Beowulf, the oldest surviving poem today, was an epic poem that people enjoyed heard or tell a story. Sonet 18 by William Shakespeare is well-known poem even in today that portrays one’s love towards the woman. Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is still considered as one of the greatest works of world literature. Compare to poetry’s long history and influences in literature history, the modern world doesn’t enjoy reading as much as people did before. Nevertheless, people still write poem and school teaching poem, make us read the poem. If people don’t enjoy and don’t look for a poem as much as we did in the past, why do we still need poetry?

I believe we still need poetry because human’s emotion is full of complex fragments and we still need boundless imaginations to explore our emotion. In the modern world, people speak what they need to speak, people learn what they need to learn, people memorize what they need to memorize, but there are less and fewer people imagining things, thinking outside of the box. Imaginations are significant and unique work that only humans can do. People imagine new things, new world, then we think, we plan, and we perform: this is how we have survived from history. Imagination germinates from words, language. More words mean more knowledge. More words and more knowledge help people to imagine more and explore furthers. Imagination is a foundation to frame topic and story. Word is an essential component to express one’s story and emotions. Those two essential components – imagination and word – are not just significant in writing poem, but also in living in the modern world and survive from the world.

All human always carries emotion. Different situation, different ages evoke a different emotion. Emotion makes the person perfect, but also imperfect. We feel emotion, we want to express that whether in facial emotion, in behavior, or in words. We often share our emotions in words. However, sometimes too many words degenerate original emotions. Poetry, compare to novels, required fewer words. Both poem and novel convey one’s imaginations and emotions. The only difference is that poem is using fewer words and its words are containing implications. Through poetry, we can convey and share our emotion with implicative and symbolic words. These make poetry as pure and suitable to express one’s emotion.

In the modern world, poetry considers as a complicate genre to write and to read compared to other genres. However, poetry is authentic literature genre that requires skillful words, boundless imaginations and conveys one’s original emotions. Poetry is most suitable and necessary literature in this century where fastness and indifferences become more common.