Summary: <p>The pleasures of poetry are subversive and perhaps always have been.<span id="more-533"></span> Poetry is not fundamentally necessary. Poetry is a privilege; it is the result of the desire in mankind to make beauty with language. Poetry is part of a beautiful world; it does not exist in a mechanistic system of atoms, chance, and randomness. But if God created the cosmos then we have a reason for poetry. As Christians, we have great reason for appreciating poetry since a large part of the Scriptures are God-breathed poetry.</p> <p><a href="http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/why-bother-with-poetry/">Why Bother with Poetry?</a> by A.E. Stallings</p>
