People are constantly looking for answers. They continue to find meaning behind every phenomenon that exists. Whether it's for the sake of their conscience or what to say to the people around them. “What passes for answers?” is a collection of poems by Mikael de Lara Co that claims to answer life's most difficult questions and portray the human experience. In understanding this collection of poems, the reader finds himself having to learn the art of poetry and language in connection with the character's experiences and thoughts in what passes for responses. The gesture of the collection is to collectively name and search for words and at the same time create metaphors and explain through images and poetry the answers that can embody everything. This collection also attempts to outline the function of the poet and poetry towards society. Everything is embodied in the attempt at certainty. The person continues to search for answers as a way to have something to hold on to and provide comfort in this world where change is inevitable. Certainty is always an illusion. It's so real, so overwhelming and so raw. In a world where the nature of life is that everything moves and changes, has ebbs and flows, with beginnings, middles and ends. None of the things that seem safe and secure are guaranteed to last – not forever, not for a certain period of time, for that matter. In this case, having a sense of certainty in life means not being afraid to live. Possibility of certainty, desires for explanation of human experience. The power of certainty is the power of life. He is solely responsible for keeping society alive, trying things, and making his own desires come true. It is what awakens curiosity and encourages the idea of risk. When there is almost nothing, what is certainty? Of course...... half of the document ......professional insurance for many years or decades. The poem conveys the comforting sense that we are on familiar ground, that we have the perceptual tools to make sense of what we are encountering. The essential social function of poetry is first and foremost, the most obvious function, that of giving answers. A poem must perform this function if it is to accomplish one. Poetry happens between the primaries, the page and the mind, and the world and the word. More than a thing, it is a transfer of energy between the poles. The task of poetry is to mitigate, but to mitigate through an accelerator: it too becomes primary in its range from rivaling the world to near exclusion and/or creation of the same, to a humble transparency that adds nothing but clarity. Behind every question and thought in uncertainty we can still retain meaning through poetry. What passes for an answer? Poetry is what passes for answers.
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