What Is Poetry For?

The article discusses the importance of poetry and its meaning, purpose, and significance. It highlights that poetry offers freedom-not the promise, or the rhetoric, or the image of freedom, but the real-time experience, the sensation, of transcending constrictions of place, person, and circumstance. It also notes that once to feel truly free is to acquire an impatience, an intolerance even, of oppressions great and small.