Roman Poetry

I like how Ted Hughes and Marc Antony from the t.v. show Rome is meant to show Sylvia Plath with me in the background the Roman nature of poetry. Mr McInnis my creative writing professor defined poetry as being recognized and published but he's wrong. Poetry is the writing that indicates a close and intimate relationship between the poet and the nature of the world the poet lives within and a celebration of values the poet celebrates while within that nature. If one only writes to be published one would only be servile and meaningless. The show Rome had an interesting dialogue in the fourth episode of a man who was using religious language to gain favor from Marc Antony and Antony responded "what cack you speak will you just get on with your point man." And when he didnt Antony was like "off with you" and had no business with Antony or poetry. One needs to celebrate life. I once mentioned to a friend that one cant live defensively or fear of hell to be safe. I solved that by living life to the fullest and using poetry to navigate the subtleties of that living. Lucretius "On the Nature of Things" for further reading.