Thursday, 02 April 2009
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I Like the Idea of Poetry...
But I don't really like what poets have to say...
I love the idea of poetry: the rhythm, meter, rhyme, cadence, its highly condensed nature, and the fact that you have to read it aloud to really do it justice. But I don't like what most poetry is about or at least what I have to read in my class. We aren't reading cheerful or encouraging poetry, we are reading depressing, dark poetry. (And a lot of it doesn't make sense... Sure, poetry is a bit odd, but seriously, some of this is basically random words put into lines.)
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Comments (2)
That's a bummer. There's so much good stuff out there, why waste time on the depressing poems? What poets are you studying? (so I can stay away from them...
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Anyway...I think depressing poems can often be just as good, often better than happy poems. I mean, when I'm happy, I usually don't read happy poems, I do something else slightly more active. It's when I'm sad that I come to my desk and read a sad poem...
Have you read the Waste Land?