Being A Poet
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Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
alliyah wrote:@Aley, you make good points. Actually now I'm realizing there's like so many songs about song-writing, I'm thinking of raps in particular... but then again lyrics are a form of poetry so maybe it sort of goes with the territory.
Also you mention Shakespeare's era didn't do as much with the whole "poems about poems" but arguably one of Shakespeare's most famous pieces (Sonnet 18) "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" is all about the power of poetry.Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
I always thought that the "eternal lines" were referring to poetry itself (although I guess it could be interpreted as familial lines/off-spring as well).
Getting back that question of why do we do this? I think your answer is spot on -- we write what we know.
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