Meredith Herald
VolumeX, Issue?
October 6,1993
Raleigh, North Carolina
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photo by Tara Young
To promote awarcDess of fire safety, coocerned students requested that the
burned mattress from second Heilman be on display in f^nt of Carlyle
Campbell Library September 28*October 1.
Convocation speaker addresses the
importance of poetry in society
Board of Trustees charts
a new beginning
by Tracey Rawls
The Meredith College Board of
Trustees moved (he conditions for the
election of its members from the char
ter to the by-laws at its September 24
meeting, according to President John
Weems.
llie charter does not say anything
about the election of trustees. The by
laws say the Board of Trustees will
send a list of nominations to the
tist State Convention, which will then
choose trustees from die list
Last spring the Convention wrote
a letter to Ihe College requesting a
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by Christina Peoples
Poetry was once an integral part
of society and it needs to be part of
society again today, said former vice
president of General Foods and now
full-time writer, Dana Gioia, at the
Honors’ Convocation on Monday.
According to Gioia, poetry does
not get much general recognition be
cause most people think thu it is an
old-fashioned pastime for a few
people, notan activity for the whole of
society. People give poetry respect,
but not participation, said Gioia.
Gioia said, “Poets feel like
' someone’s great aunt in an expensive
'nursing home. Yes, we’re well taken
^care of, but we’d rather be up and
^about.”
Poetry has almost no active role
left in society. The only people who
really enjoy it, ^jpreciate it for what it
is and want more of it are children,
said Gioia. They really listen to the
rtiyme and see the images poetry gives
them.
Most of the time people talk to
each other, but they never really lis
ten. Poetry is speech at its highest
intensity, said Gioia.
According to Gioia, “The poet’s
role is to use words truthfully. Art
mixes the bitter and the beautihil and
provides a form that holds it all to
gether. Poetry makes the truth not
only bearable, but beautiful.”
To appreciate poetry, we must
change the way we look at it Poetry is
not written to be analyzed, but to be
experienced. Unless you surrender
yourself to the experience of the poem,
“no other critical analysis is worth a
damn,” said Gioia.
Society, as it has in the past, must
look to poetry and poets as the keepers
of history, stmies and traditions in the
language of the people. Without po
etry, poets and other writers, we lose
the common identity and collective
memory we have as a people, ssud
Gioia.
“No people can know what they
are, unless they know what they were,”
Gioia said.
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