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Intelligence Squared

The Poetry Pharmacy Returns with William Sieghart

Nov 27, 2023
01:22:37

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  • Poetry serves as a healing antidote, providing emotional nourishment and connecting individuals through shared experiences.
  • Poetry celebrates real bodies and promotes self-acceptance, challenging societal beauty standards.

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The Power of Poetry as a Healing Antidote

Poetry can serve as a healing antidote to life's everyday challenges. It provides a sense of complicity and understanding, offering support and emotional nourishment. People turn to poetry to express and connect with their emotions, finding solace and a sense of continuity in the words of great poets. The accessibility of poetry through rap music and social media has contributed to its resurgence in popularity. Poetry has become a secular liturgy, a way to commune and find meaning in a troubled world.

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