How can we let make people appreciate literature especially poetry?

Question

Literature has often been taken for granted by other people. Although other subjects such as math, science, etc. are considered as the “harder” subjects, literature has been often ignored and, at times, resented by people rather than appreciating it for its unique artistic view.

Answer 1

You cannot "make" people appreciate something just because you do. They will either like it or not. As long as you enjoy it...then it should not bother you what other people choose to appreciate. Not everyone likes opera, or theater...but for those who do...they go and enjoy

Answer 2

People will enjoy whatever they prefer and they are free to do so. Literature is just also "harder" for some people. Or how else do you determine that maths is harder? For who!!
Another point to note: Literature is not just a matter of reading "Leaves of Grass" or "Cat on a Hot tin roof"! Literature as a discipline, has lately expanded its boundaries beyond the traditional IA Richards literary criticism and the new criticism school of thought. Comparative literary studies today encompass even literary studies and physiology, medicine, culinary arts, architecture, art history etc.
Yet another: some of us in literary studies love it wholeheartedly. If you study literature up to higher levels, you may realize that literature as a traditional discipline eventually gives way or leads to close analyses of all the disciplines categorized as such under arts and science. Literature is the red thread that links all disciplines.
No wonder that Nietszche regarded it as the "madness of philosophy" and the bridge between psychoanalysis and religion.
Lastly: Raise your hand those who have endured TS Eliot's The Love song of Alfred Pruffrock, Tolstoy's War and Peace or the nobel prize winner Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook!! What I mean is that literary works require some effort to read. One must be quite patient and be ready to commit the the time to read a novel like Middlemarch or Dicken's Bleak House.
So how do you make people appreciate literature and poetry?
Give them Mother Goose nursery rhymes or Aesops fables to begin with. Tell them to sing their best songs. Ask them to compose love poems. You cannot appreciate Hamlet's to be or not to be if you are so indifferent to life's aesthetics. Any human is a literary person, capable of thinking in images and enjoying works written in images. Being human is also being creative and artistic.


good luck

Answer 3

Poetry is history now in this modern jet set age and time with all the technology and everything on the net. Poetry is such a boring thing of the past.

Answer 4

You can't MAKE people appreciate anything that they don't want to. All you can do is give them opportunities for exposure to the various subjects and art forms, and go from there. Not everyone is able to appreciate all subjects or forms of art, and I think it might be a touch boring if we all liked the same things. Enjoy what YOU enjoy, and allow others to do the same.

Answer 5

i think people are just as bad at math as they are at poetry - no better, no worse.

you can live a perfectly acceptable life without understanding the implications of goedel's incompeteness theorem - lots of people do.

you can die happy without having seen all thirty-seven of shakespeare's plays (even maybe without having read 'the prelude').

of course, once you've mastered goedel, or shakespeare, or wordsworth you start to think : 'why did i leave it so long? what was i thinking?'

(but shhhh ... don't tell anybody).

Answer 6

Everywhere are small groups who meet
regularly to enjoy each other's poems.
They are hard to find, though.

Answer 7

Yes you need sugar.
But if you mean the white granulated sugar, no you don't need that.
We have had no sugar in our house for years.
When we have visitors we say 'sorry we have no sugar' and they all have coffee without.
You don't need extra sugar.
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Answer 8

let people read them