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Rogers 3rd
Education by Poetry, By: Robert Frost
The
general argument/ point made by Robert Frost in his work “Education By Poetry
“is that life is all about saying things one way and meaning it in another way,
and that if you are not educated enough to understand metamorphic language than
you will not understand much.
More specifically, Frost argues that if you
are not educated in poetry than there is no way you can ever know the use of
metaphors. He writes, “I find someone now and then to agree with me that all
thinking, except mathematical thinking, is metaphorical, or all thinking except
scientific thinking.” (page 49) In this passage, Frost is suggesting that the
only way to get close to poetry is to either write it or read it. By writing
it, you learn to have ideas and by reading it you become more familiar with the
ideas given to you.
In conclusion, it is Frost’s belief that a
man that gets close to poetry will know so much more about the world compared
to someone who distances themselves from poetry, because good poetry is not
written just because, it is written for a purpose, a purpose that truly exists
in the world.
In
my view Frost is right and wrong because
I do feel like people who are more interested in poetry tend to be higher
educated, but I to have read poetry and don’t feel as if I know more than
anyone else. For example, in my creative writing class, we had a whole segment
on poetry and I really did learn a lot from it just because it was good
practice, but I feel that anyone who read my poems would think of them as just
a waste of time.
Although Frost might object that people could
even learn from my poetry, I maintain that not even my poetry was extremely
meaningful to anyone else, even if it was meaningful to me at the time. Therefore,
I conclude that poetry does make you think and that it takes a certain level of
education to be able to not only write but read good poetry, I still believe
that you won’t automatically have all of live answers afterwards.
i believe you are completely missing the point here. "The general argument/ point made by Robert Frost in his work “Education By Poetry “is that life is all about saying things one way and meaning it in another way. " yes this is true. But I don't think there is any part of that talk can be interpreted as "if you are not educated enough to understand metamorphic language than you will not understand much." He talks about how metaphor is the start of our understanding, how it is comparing one thing to another. Which is the first thing "our uneducated mind" does. I don't know. I thought your interpretation was completely off.
ReplyDeleteI think he means that poetry forces one to open their mind and think. Poetry is vague it leaves a lot to the imagination, using that tool is not just for the well educated, it's something we're all born with. The reader can relate it to their own experience, and they can learn the experience of others.
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