Is the Study of Poetry a Worthwhile and Relevant Activity in the 21st Centuries Society?

Is the Study of Poetry a Worthwhile and Relevant Activity in the 21st Centuries Society? In the 21st Century, technology has advanced at an amazing rate and we are losing the way we use to write as e-mail supersedes handwritten letters and tapes replace books. With our much more hectic lifestyles and the new topics on the school syllabus such as information technology and heath studies, the available time to study or write poetry is …

…to remember things and also as chants in protests or football matches. This form of poetry gives people a sense of being part of a community. Poetry can be interesting, educational and reading it can also be considered a leisure activity. I feel when students are taught variations of poetry, media and other literature it will be valuable, only the extensive studying of one particular poem seems slightly useless to our modern day society's demands