Poetry Doesn't Matter

This week I read a poem titled "Poetry Makes Nothing Happen" written by Julia Alvarez. This poem is an interesting one if I say so. The way the author writes this is that poetry, in what i'm assuming is her own mind, poetry makes all the things that are wrong in the world better. The last two lines of the poem read, "That's why they can be trusted, why poems might save us from what happens in the world. Mike Holmquist, Jenny Klein and Faith Cheney identify as the characters in this poem. Each on having their own situation in life. Julia Alvarez continues to say "Poetry made nothing happen" and "if only poetry had made nothing happen. As if poetry was able to make something happen, or had a role in something happening. These characters turned to poetry, in hopes to escape their problems and feel as if nothing was wrong.