Wordsworth's "…the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" still stands the test of time and finds the place in modern definition, "Poetry is the chiseled marble of language; it's a paint-spattered canvas - but the poet uses words instead of paint, and the canvas is you", as expressed by Mark Flanagan.
Poetry teaches us the techniques to understand people as Amy Lowell in his essay 'Why We Should Read Poetry' mentioned, "...we know man in all his moods -- in the most beautiful thoughts of his heart, in his farthest reaches of imagination, in the tenderness of his love, in the nakedness and awe of his soul confronted with the terror and wonder of the Universe." Understanding the meaning of the words in the poem is of less important than feeling the feelings attached in it.
This site is designed to encourage the readers to experience the displaced feelings of a misplaced being. The Anthology of Soul’s Whisper is a ‘dateless’ diary of picture in words with feelings and emotions wept and laughed at different episodes of life. It is an album in which the incidences (sweet and sour) are captured and displayed.
A poem to me is the picture of the poet. Only with the eyes of a poet can we but find his picture in his words. I cannot guarantee the presence of ‘logic of the imagination’ as T.S. Eliot (1975, p. 77) sated but with certainty I urge you to read it to discover the follies of a poem without ‘logic’ or ‘imagination’ in it. It is worth the read…
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