EDUCATION BY POETRY

The general point made by Robert Frost in his work Education by Poetry is that there is a lot more to poetry than meets the eye. More specifically, Frost suggests that poetry is metaphors. He writes; “Education by poetry is education by metaphor.”(Page 48) in this passage, Frost  is suggesting that we have to recognize the metaphors in our life, which is a word or phrase that is suppose to describe someone or something. In conclusion, it is Frost’s belief that metaphors or poetry is the same as thinking.

In my view, Frost is wrong because feel like I can see different sides of things without a poem. For example, I understand the painting of Brueghel’s Icarus without the poem Musee des Beaux Arts. Yes the poem does help but I can use critical thinking and see different sides of the painting without the poem. Although Frost might object that a “person who gets close enough to poetry, he is going to know more about the word belief than anybody else knows…” (Page 50)I maintain that I can know just as much without reading poems, I can gain that knowledge elsewhere. Therefore, I conclude that poetry is not necessary to have in my life; I can get a different perspective by myself.