sorrow and shame

we've just begun learning poetry in school.
i've got to admit.
that's never been a particular interest of mine.
i even used to die just at the sight of one.

now, you can say i've adopted a 'zen' approach to it.
but i can't deny the lecture and tutorial was interesting.
well, minus the metre part,
which up till now, i don't understand.

but one quote caught me

"out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry"

i totally get that.
and i think this Yeats guy is a genius.
i know we discussed that his poems are tough and he have 'weird' ideas.
but somehow,
i oddly understand what he's trying to say.
well, of course after i get everybody's help to understand what the poem says in the first place.

and if we touch on more poems like that,
i might actually find myself enjoying learning poetry.
as long as i'm not required to write one,
i should be fine.


i'll end off with this

" We must always be intoxicated; whether on wine, on poetry, or on virtue, whichever suits our inclination - but we must be intoxicated. "

intoxicated with melancholy.

is there such a thing?