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  by Nathan Breck

  Created on: July 23, 2007

  It is preposterous to assume that poetry will not matter "in the 21st century". Everything matters,

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  by Michelle Hensley

  Created on: July 27, 2007   Last Updated: January 04, 2012

  If one was to say poetry doesn't matter in the 21st century, he or she must live in an extremely secluded,

• 3 of 108

  by Joseph Robertson

  Created on: October 27, 2008

  Poetry is the frontier where language in use comes in contact with future meaning, and in the process,

• 4 of 108

  by Cherrie Larson

  Created on: December 12, 2008   Last Updated: December 21, 2008

  So many things become archaic by definition of those moving to fast and far away from the central essence

• 5 of 108

  by Krystle Hernandez

  Created on: July 02, 2007

  Arguably on of the greatest bards of all time, Rainier Maria Rilke's writing extended beyond rhyme,

• 6 of 108

  by Holle Abee

  Created on: March 25, 2008

  Poetry is a medium that speaks to all mankind, one that transcends time. Humanity will never outgrow

• 7 of 108

  by Nicole Snyder

  Created on: June 22, 2008   Last Updated: December 04, 2011

  It doesn't matter what century it is. Poetry is used differently by different people. It can be forgotten

• 8 of 108

  by Jalissia Coleman

  Created on: May 30, 2009   Last Updated: June 01, 2009

  Poetry matters - no matter what era or century we are speaking about. Poetry helps us develop out minds

• 9 of 108

  by Sandra Piddock

  Created on: March 25, 2008   Last Updated: November 20, 2011

  When poetry no longer matters, the world and its inhabitants will be emotionally poorer as a result.

• 10 of 108

  by David Alger

  Created on: June 11, 2008   Last Updated: March 07, 2012

  Poetry matters in this day and age more than anything. We live in a world where everything under the

• 11 of 108

  by Agape Man

  Created on: August 08, 2007   Last Updated: November 12, 2011

  If poetry in the 21st century has lost any of its luster, it's only because of a lack of sincerity in

• 12 of 108

  by Rick Bavera

  Created on: February 23, 2009   Last Updated: October 10, 2010

  Poetry. Does it still matter?  Should poetry matter and mean something in our lives in the

• 13 of 108

  by M. L. Kiser

  Created on: July 31, 2007

  Poetry really has a place in the 21st century. In a world so fast-paced and turbulent, I think that

• 14 of 108

  by Danelle Karth

  Created on: February 19, 2008

  Poetry means many things to many different people. There are a great number of those forced to read

• 15 of 108

  by Melanie Miller-Page

  Created on: October 16, 2007

  Poetry will always matter. The only reason certain people will argue that it is irrelevant in the 21st

• 16 of 108

  by Bethany Anderson

  Created on: April 02, 2008

  This is my friend - she writes poems. Such is the tag line that several of my friends have used when

• 17 of 108

  by Martin Jacobs

  Created on: February 23, 2009

  Poetry will always matter. As long as there are those who have souls and still live, love and lose there

• 18 of 108

  by Marianne Lange

  Created on: June 28, 2008

  I have always enjoyed poetry. Some say, "That's because you're a geek!" It may be so. I still love poetry.

• 19 of 108

  by Allan M. Heller

  Created on: September 09, 2007   Last Updated: November 24, 2009

  In the 21st century, poetry seems little more than a fading pastime, a trivial, unimportant avocation

• 20 of 108

  by Vicky Ann Smith

  Created on: July 28, 2007

  Poetry is all around us from the morning that greets us to the stars at night. It is how you think,