“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.” (T.S. Eliot)
Because all my life I was too afraid to face with myself running from it became one of the few things I am good at. In order to find my perfect hiding place I tried lots of things such as listening music, reading a book or watching tons of films but none of them worked. I was still able to hear my thoughts, my emotions were still persistent to remind their power over me or my personality were still bad at fighting with all of them. As a last resort I tried writing and all of a sudden my head was quite again. After that writing became my safe place So when I saw this definition of poetry I thought this is the perfect one. Because poetry should be like matryoshka dolls every time one read a sentence of a poem he/she should be able to discover new meanings.That’s why I think those people who use poetry to escape themselves do this perfectly because while trying to escape those things they learn how to hide behind words. One never truly understand what is the real meaning those poets intended to say and this must be one true aim of poetry: To make people think deeper.