{"id":15236,"date":"2024-04-30T08:35:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T06:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/?p=15236"},"modified":"2024-04-22T17:33:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T15:33:54","slug":"poetry-is-by-far-the-most-useful-of-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/en\/poetry-is-by-far-the-most-useful-of-the-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry is, by far, the most useful of the arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Poetry is, by far, the most useful of the arts<\/h1>\n<p>Poetry even serves to teach and learn sciences<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15092\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15092\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-15092\" src=\"http:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/poetry-688368_1280-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/poetry-688368_1280-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/poetry-688368_1280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/poetry-688368_1280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/poetry-688368_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15092\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Imagen de Adriano Gadini en Pixabay<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a style=\"display: inline-block;\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/deed.en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license noopener noreferrer\">License Creative Commons <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 22px!important; margin-left: 3px; vertical-align: text-bottom;\" src=\"https:\/\/mirrors.creativecommons.org\/presskit\/icons\/by.svg?ref=chooser-v1\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 22px!important; margin-left: 3px; vertical-align: text-bottom;\" src=\"https:\/\/mirrors.creativecommons.org\/presskit\/icons\/nc.svg?ref=chooser-v1\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 22px!important; margin-left: 3px; vertical-align: text-bottom;\" src=\"https:\/\/mirrors.creativecommons.org\/presskit\/icons\/nd.svg?ref=chooser-v1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-15084\" src=\"http:\/\/educationalevidence.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Eduardo-Moga-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eduardomoga1.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Eduardo Moga<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The age-old refrain that poetry is useless \u2014 although I misspeak: it is not age-old; for millennia, until almost our time, people have not doubted that poetry was one of the most beneficial activities for the community. It reconnected us with nature, with the gods, and with ourselves \u2014 it has always seemed to me a \u201cpamema\u201d (DRAE<sup>1<\/sup>: affectation, pretence, futile or trivial act or saying). Contrary to popular belief, poetry serves many purposes. First and foremost, it prevents the poet from perishing, both literally and metaphorically. Some have sidestepped suicide or mitigated the effect of the bombs falling around them by crafting verses. And many others have avoided a living death through poetry: becoming resignees of existence, zombies who attend to daily obligations but who have lost the joy of laughter and the pleasure of breathing. For some, poetry offers a lesser but sufficient salvation: those who engage in it for the sheer joy it brings. This salvific and even redemptive pastime should not be dismissed: finding a meaningful activity to distract from the panic until Death arrives is no trivial matter or, as our unforgettable Mariano would say, it is a significant one. But, beyond the therapeutic effects that the infinite task of stringing words together to find alternative meanings to reality and our existence may have on some individuals, poetry possesses universal utilities, even more, it possesses pedagogical virtues: it teaches things, which will equip us to confront the challenges of an unavoidably hostile existence.<\/p>\n<p>For example, poetry serves us to verify that language fights for justice and harms the powerful, as demonstrated in \u201cThe Stalin Epigram\u201d, by the Russian Osip Mandelstam: \u201c(\u2026) the ten thick worms his fingers, \/his words like measures of weight, \/ the huge laughing cockroaches on his top lip, \/ the glitter of his boot-rims. \/ Ringed with a scum of chicken-necked bosses \/ he toys with the tributes of half-men. \/ One whistles, another meows, a third snivels. \/ He pokes out his finger and he alone goes boom. \/ He forges decrees in a line like horseshoes, \/ One for the groin, one the forehead, temple, eye. \/ He rolls the executions on his tongue like berries. \/ He wishes he could hug them like big friends from home\u201d. (translated by W.S. Merwin and Clarence Brown). Of course, it can also serve for the satirized tyrant to revolt and send you to the gulag, as experienced by Mandelstam. But this only proves the strength that poetry treasures and the violence with which it can inflict harm on malevolent forces.<\/p>\n<p>Poetry also functions as a unique medium to articulate what cannot be expressed otherwise, often circumventing social censorship or the limitations imposed by reality. Take for instance Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca, who was tragically executed by the Falangists for being a republican, a gentleman, and a homosexual (the latter of which led to him being shot twice in the buttocks when he was already dead) wrote shortly before he was murdered the wonderful <em>Sonnets of Dark Love<\/em>, a collection that remained unknown until 1986. \u00a0Through these verses, he conveyed the love and desire he felt for another man (or men), sentiments he could not openly express in his life or his other literary works: \u201c(\u2026) Morning join us on the bed, \/ our mouths placed over the frozen jet \/ of a blood, without end, that was shed. \/\/ And the sun shone through the closed balcony, \/ and the coral of life opened its branch, \/ over my shrouded heart,\u201d writes in his sonnet \u201cNight of insomniac love\u201d. (translated into English by A. S. Kline)<\/p>\n<p>Poetry even serves to teach and learn sciences. Quevedo composed a poem to gold; Juan Ram\u00f3n Jim\u00e9nez, to a drop of nitric acid; C\u00e9sar Vallejo, to phosphorescence; Gabino-Alejandro Carriedo, to the theory of iron; Clara Jan\u00e9s, to amethyst; Rafael P\u00e9rez Estrada, to aquamarine; An\u00edbal N\u00fa\u00f1ez, to quartz; Lucretius, to the nature of things; Neruda, to the atom; \u00c1ngel Guache, to the law of gravity; Vicente Huidobro, to space-time (Juan Ram\u00f3n also has two fundamental prose poems titled \u201cTime and Space\u201d); Joaqu\u00edn Mar\u00eda Bartrina, to electricity; Aurora Luque, to the speed of light; William Ospina, a prayer of Albert Einstein; Vicente Luis Mora, a mathematical sonnet; Enrique Mor\u00f3n, odes to numbers; and Ada Salas, a poem to the circle: \u201cExactitud del c\u00edrculo. \/ Perfecta equidistancia \/ en torno a un centro. \/ Aguja del comp\u00e1s que se desliza \/ y traza \/\/ la forma inexorable de la espera\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Poetry serves, in the end, as Oscar Wilde said, \u2018to be beautiful\u2019, and perhaps that is its greatest utility.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p><sup>1 <\/sup><sup>Diccionario de la Real Academia Espa\u00f1ola<\/sup><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<strong>educational EVIDENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rights:\u00a0<strong>Creative Commons<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The age-old refrain that poetry is useless \u2014 although I misspeak: it is not age-old; for millennia, until almost our time, people have not doubted that poetry was one of the most beneficial activities for the community. It reconnected us with nature, with the gods, and with ourselves \u2014 it has always seemed to me a \u201cpamema\u201d (DRAE1: affectation, pretence, futile or trivial act or saying). 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