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| Yes | 73% | 2003 votes | Total: 2745 votes | |
| No | 27% | 742 votes |
Yes
by Rory Pollaro
Created on: November 03, 2009
Does society need poets? Not in the sense that society needs doctors or nurses or firefighters, but
Created on: July 16, 2010
Society does need poetry. Poetry enables the written word to have a beautiful and symbolic quality,
Created on: August 16, 2009
A society without poets is dull, dreary, meaningless and insipid. It goes without saying that Poets
by Quiana Kyles
Created on: December 11, 2008 Last Updated: April 04, 2011
MAXIMUM OVERLOAD: THE LIFESTYLE OF A TRUE POETESS SOCIETIES SAVIOR
Music, drama, performing arts, graphic
by Evan Ross
Created on: March 27, 2011 Last Updated: March 30, 2011
In order to answer this question adequately, one must first define “need” and what exactly
Created on: December 18, 2008 Last Updated: June 01, 2011
The necessity of poets in a society is eternal and of the same importance as law and security.
Created on: August 24, 2008
Poets Are People And People Are Poets: Society Needs Poets
Asking the question of whether or not society
Created on: April 17, 2009 Last Updated: April 19, 2009
When the aliens invade, or the mad scientists working on a doomsday machine finally manage to tip the
by Garry Spotts
Created on: July 12, 2009 Last Updated: July 14, 2009
The World Will End When The Poet is Silent.
Society would be poorer without the poet. Since antiquity,
by Neal Whitman
Created on: August 30, 2009
My Profession
Society needs poets? Society high, middle, low is a division of labor. We work. We
Created on: April 17, 2010
As a writer who will publish her first poetry book within the next year, I am going to have to side
Created on: July 15, 2009
Speaking for myself and thousands of other poets and poetry lovers, I believe society does need poets.
by C.M. Tucker
Created on: February 06, 2009
DOES SOCIETY NEED POETS?
We need to dream. We dream to achieve. We achieve to be more than we are (or
by Paul Roberts
Created on: April 20, 2009
If the need truly came upon us to ask rather we need poets are not, it is truly a sad day. For ages
Created on: October 22, 2009
For many poetry is an enigma and the patterns used by the poet can confuse and bamboozle. However,
by Tessa Dick
Created on: December 20, 2008
To ask whether society needs poets is to ask whether humanity needs a soul. Poets tend to see more clearly
Created on: March 03, 2009
I am a poet.
Poets are necessary in our society.
Poets are said to be the timekeepers of a generation,
by Judy Joyce
Created on: October 03, 2008 Last Updated: December 25, 2010
SOCIETY NEEDS POETS ; THE DEAD POETS SOCIETY
The 1989 film, "Dead Poets Society" is one of those classic
by aurora97
Created on: June 30, 2009
The society needs poets nowadays even more than before. The pace of the life is sometimes so quick and
Created on: December 31, 2008
YES SOCIETY DOES NEED POETS
Living in the world we live in today takes constant reminder to stop and
No
Created on: September 01, 2008 Last Updated: October 09, 2011
If society needs bankers, it needs poets. If society needs doctors, it needs poets. If society
Created on: May 05, 2009 Last Updated: May 08, 2009
SOCIETY, being an abstraction, certainly does not need poets or poetry!
BUT POETS or POET needs poetry,
by xe
Created on: March 22, 2009 Last Updated: March 27, 2009
NO - for Poets ask Society to think, and today we are far too self-absorbed for such honest introspection!
Created on: August 01, 2008 Last Updated: November 30, 2011
I do not think society needs poets. Poetry is not like music or graphic art, in that it is not used
by G E Barr
Created on: December 09, 2008
REALITY CHECK
Society no more needs poets than the dead need a wardrobe. Poetry is not written for society.
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