Seven Arguments in Defence of Poetry: Resisting the Madding Noise

Abstract

‘Seven Arguments in Defence of Poetry: Resisting the Madding Noise’ could easily have been titled ‘Seven Arguments in Defence of Utopia: Resisting so Many Platitudes’. In both cases, the ‘arguments’ are situations and attitudes, as well. The question of silence, of origin, of timelessness, of purification, of pause, of whimsy, of mirth. There is a mutual dependence between these elements, and I believe that they serve to define both the coordinates of the poetic fact and the intimation of a kind of rebellion or resistance.