Show PRACTICAL USE OF POETRY without verse people would go about isolated from each other by chaos of misunderstanding it poetry could be in an instant dept swept not merely out of print beitl atit out of language and tradition there would be babel indeed we should i go about isolated each one from each by a chaos of misunderstanding with no no more communication than we coulm could hu prose out of intellectual tenna says a writer to lo century magazine we could suggest nothing connote nothing say not nothing hint but what we could define abe practical reality 1 oti of that loss one way icay measure by aurl our proverbial ignorance of certain sav 1 tees ages and oriental races whose poetry allen alien to our own nor Is that all I 1 zor or poetry Is not alone our commini repository of past experience but buttof tal a degree far greater than we realize our source ot of present action there theral is no need more than to remind any I 1 observer of human nature that man kind acts rather upon passion than upon conviction brutus demonstrated I 1 t ills his point in prose it was a poetic appeal that made the stones of rome toi to rise and mutiny we define and dwi de 1 termine and decide and still dy do nothing but nheu we begin to feel somei some i thing is done |