Question 1: Can poetry be a roadmap? It depends. Robert Frost talks about how the road less travelled “has made all the difference.” Politicians call this a dangerous detour, even a dead end, because their private attitude is “my way or the highway”, choices that can prove not just unpoetic, but stupid. Dante Alighieri wrote a [roadmap] explaining existence’s dangers and delights. Consider how poetry, all exterior sounds and figures, is regurgitation of your interior journeys. Messy, no colour-coded Googlemap. Sometimes poetry’s just a walk around the block: searching memories, a surprise flower, the guard dog that barks every time.
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