Poetry And The Affective Way. Poem by Dr. Antony Theodore

Poetry with its primary appeal
to the affective rather than
the cognitive faculties,
is a form of music.

Just as contemporary musicians
have achieved effect
and evoked response
through experimental forms,
including overt dissonance,
the modern poet has launched
out to find ways of breaking
through the walls of pseudosophistication,
even resorting to nonform.


Thus the value of poetic expression
is immense on the way of mystics.