what is the purpose of poetry?

Amatoritsero (Ama) Ede, Writer-In-Residence, Carleton University, editorializes on this very question. An academic approach but food for thought.

The avant garde is irrational in mood. It is anti-enlightenment generally even though it appropriates empiric tools like arithmetic in its permutation-combination of choice words. In its irrational postmordern mood it hybridises language with other interactive media, it incorporates the computer and its dynamics – all in an effort, ironically, to communicate even though it fails at the end of the experiments and becomes simply subjective art mostly.