Re: [acornlive] purpose of poetry
Katiegro@aol.com (acornlive@dublinwriters.org)
Sun, 11 Apr 1999 17:55:46 EDT
Is human interaction as difficult as we make it to be?
I believe so. Most humans are frightened to show feelings. We begin setting
up barriers to hide our most intense feelings, afraid human contact will hurt
us. I believe this is what identifies the artist from the others. The
artists attempt to knock down barriers and feel, regardless of how painful
these feelings may be. And this is in the case of joy too because the more
joy we feel, the farther to despair we could fall. Sometimes it is easier to
simply walk a straight line and numb our bodies from all possible pricks. The
artist challenges the human emotion and reaches his success when he can
communicate these feelings in some form-- through words, music, dance, paint.
How many times do we go to family dinners and engage in small talk with those
members closest to our lives? How often do we run into people who stimulate
and excite our imagination and feelings? I think humans are drawn to
isolation in fear of pain. We avoid truth in fear of rejection.
So, I must say it is on rare occasions when we experience human interaction
in pure forms--
katie
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