Poetry

Poetry has a lasting impact if it connects us with the history or consciousness of its moment. Regardless whether we find our way into a poem through a historical context, the language also gives us an aesthetic appreciation and we can remember a line from a poem for a long time even if we do not understand every detail of a poem. Write an essay in which you examine both the historical significance and the aesthetic achievement of a poem. How do these two qualities help each other or perhaps even work against each other in the poem?