Matthew Arnold

I read over Kayla Kitchen's blog today and read her entry entitled "Poetry as religion." She confessed that she is not a fan of poetry and said that it was restrictive. I, like many others in the English major, completely disagree. Poetry allows a writer to fully express themselves in so many different ways. Poetry is religions, religion is poetry. Poetry allows for the soul to be purged, catharsis, and feeling and emotion to be fully expressed, not only in ways of words and literary works, but song, dance... anyway you like it. Words can describe feeling and emotion better than most other things can, and so much music is inspired by such feeling that needed to be expressed.