ABSTRACT The act of writing poetry in the personal space has therapeutic effects, however, beyond the personal space, is there a utility of poetry? When the society is proclaiming poetry to be dead, the author goes on a soul-searching journey to find out why does he write poems? In his profession as a professor, he has been often asked to write sellable prose, which will also help in his career advancement. The author hovers around these two viewpoints that poetry writing is a wastage of time or a savior of life as he knows it. Despite discouragement from his immediate professional and personal environment, the author continues to record his lived experiences in the form of poetry. Through autobiographical poems and reflections upon them, the author tries to answer this question: Why write poems when nobody is there to publish or read them?

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写诗：浪费时间还是救命稻草——一种自我民族志的探索

摘要 在个人空间中写诗的行为具有治疗作用，然而，在个人空间之外，诗歌是否还有效用？当社会宣告诗歌已死时，作者进行了一次反省的旅程，以找出他为什么要写诗？在他作为教授的职业生涯中，他经常被要求写一些有销路的散文，这也有助于他的职业发展。作者围绕着这两种观点徘徊，即他所知道的诗歌写作是浪费时间或救世主。尽管对他眼前的职业和个人环境感到沮丧，但作者继续以诗歌的形式记录他的生活经历。作者通过自传诗和对它们的反思，试图回答这个问题：为什么在没有人发表或阅读的情况下写诗？