Sanam Shahedali
Professor
Firouzeh Ameri, PhD
Contemporary
English Poetry
4 July 2017
As members of the human society
in the technology-dominated 21st century, those specializing in literature are
often faced with these questions: What is the function of literature and poetry?
How do literary-oriented minds contribute to the advancement of human good? What
is the use of producing, reading, and analyzing various literary texts? Where
does producing and studying literature stand compared to saving lives and
promoting health through medical practices, putting bread on the tables through
farming, or making houses to shelter people with the help of engineers? These
questions must have been on the mind of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats
when he composed the poem “Adam’s Curse” more than a century earlier in 1902.
