A question

Does poetry come first _ like in this question_ or freedom??

I know, it seems such an odd comparison but give it a try; the claw of this question is soo deep.

I guess its both because we are using poetry to voice out our thoughts, feelings, situations etc. In poetry there is no one to say that is wrong or you can't say this because its the writer's freedom to express him/herself.

Or we have the freedom to write and so we write poetry for there aren't many to stop us or tell us that "this is wrong"..?

Freedom first, then tidy it up into poetry.

Poetry should be freedom jotted down.

Some of us are more free than others

Yet we try and form everything around us like a bad sonnet

(I know plenty about bad sonnets)

Poetry and freedom are intricately interdependent.
Without the freedom to satirize the king
there would have been no minstrels.
For example, the Irish have a legend of a troubadour
who was denied hospitality from the king.
The troubadour composed a wicked saga
describing the king's ancestry in animalistic terms
and his appearance likened to an ass.
The king was shamed so badly he abdicated his throne.

If you have freedom you have the ability to openly compose.
However, without freedom, poetry and prose are used
as weapons against despots, even if composed
in the secrecy of the basement and published
in anonymous leaflets - in Palestine, in Aleppo,
in Gambia, in Beijing, and even in Chicago.

Freedom to express yourself on the web
carries a historic force into the modern world.
Where Thomas Paine gave Common Sense
to the masses in the American Colonies,
bloggers across the world spread their messages.

I for one believe that freedom should come first for everybody, everywhere but and it's a big one I know that freedom for everyone will never be or if it is it won't be our lifetime, our children's lifetime, their children's lifetime and so on, I believe it will be a long time coming (if it ever does.) though I don't think we will ever be free to say what we wish especially online as people are watching our very move so I feel....

Anyway, I believe poetry is our own freedom of speech in that we write what we feel and how we feel and some people write about things happening within the world I.e aleppo and why shouldn't they? (not saying anyone said they couldn't)

I think I shall stop before I begin rambling in as freedom of speech is a big thing for me.

"Does poetry come first _ like in this question_ or freedom??"

^^^^ Well it depends on the poet or should i say poetess?!
If you compare Shakespeare to Neruda or to Petofi Sandor there is no comparison to Neruda or to Petofi Sandor in the obvious political truth...
Than again we can have all the rest of the literally world to analyze...lol
Also, truth has a different colour in everyones eyes!!!!
Ask Amir Anis,...

When referring to speech there should only be freedom, if some subjects were taboo in society then who decides this?

Who is worldly or objective enough to censor another person?

As John Stuart Mill said, if all in society were agreed on the truth and beauty and value of one proposition, all except one person, it would be most important, in fact it would become even more important, that that one heretic be heard, because we would still benefit from his perhaps outrageous or appalling view.

Wow one cannot ask such a question about poetry or freedom in poetry site without expecting to be hit back with such profound answers.
The most common team here is: "poetry is freedom itself!" It is what I would have said myself few years back.

My comparison was not that much about the freedom of speech in poetry, which is as interesting subject; it was about the freedom itself.
The purpose of science is to free human being from the slavery to objects, it is interconnected to freedom, but what about art? Why is it so necessary to write or read poetry? Is it to be appreciated, or is it to free our minds from mental slavery? But if so, is there any occasion that poetry itself would turn to mental slavery?