David Orr in “The Politics of Poetry” (2008) starts off by using Tom Buffenbarger’s attack against Barack Obama as a bridge to claim that poetry and politics are particularly connected to each other. In order for him to analyze both and come up with a conclusion Orr cites works from different authors.
One of the works that Orr mentions is Shelley’s, who writes that poets are “the mirror of the gigantic shadow which futurity casts upon the present” (p. 1) Orr then juxtaposes it to Franklin D. Roosevelts argument that describes politics as a “certain historic ideas in the life of the nation… to be clarified” (p. 2), implying that both have predominantly similar goals and ways of approaching it, after all “poetry and politics are both a matter
One of the works that Orr mentions is Shelley’s, who writes that poets are “the mirror of the gigantic shadow which futurity casts upon the present” (p. 1) Orr then juxtaposes it to Franklin D. Roosevelts argument that describes politics as a “certain historic ideas in the life of the nation… to be clarified” (p. 2), implying that both have predominantly similar goals and ways of approaching it, after all “poetry and politics are both a matter