Is it time for poetry out loud already?

The poems were a joy to read, especially with my Katie Han (poetry-reciter extraordinaire)and my table. The best part of reding poems is the attempt to read them in a solemn tone and the subsequent giggles that follow soon after. Now to the serious stuff. These poems have some similar themes. One of the themes that are similar is the moon, which is referred to in both the tang and the song era poems. A difference between them is that the tang poems refer to drinking and being drunk, while the song poems don't. Maybe the song poets just liked to party, and honestly I can't blame them for enjoying a(some) nice glass(es) of wine and then writing some awesome poetry about how drunk they were. Totally makes for a good poem. The song poetry also seems more concise, but that may just be because these guys weren't drinking copious amounts of booze. I don't necessarily think that the poems reflect society, I think that the poems represent the ideas and thoughts of the poet, which is a more introspective idea. Following that idea, I believe that poems can not be used to adequetly represent a society. Poems are formed partially baed on the bias of a poet, and it is not balanced by the other ideas of people from that society. For example, if a certain poet loved turkey sandwiches, and only wrote poems about them, that doesn't mean that that poets society is in love with turkey sandwiches (are you as hungry as I am?).