Why Do Some People Hate Poetry? - The Atlantic
Never been particularly interested in, or partial to, poetry. I also doubt that this is all that worthy of much analysis. It's a contrived style of writing/communication that just misses the mark, for me. Some people can listen to classical music, even the most "pop" pieces, and not be moved a bit. Meh.
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Lays rather too much emphasis on romantic poetic thought, that essay.
Arguably poetry is one of the least contrived of the arts. Music, for instance, is in essence, wholly useless - a triumph of form over content, an arrangement of mere sounds that you would never hear in the everyday. Poetry is just an arrangement of words - it is at its simplest something you might hear someone say anytime. William Hazlitt had a story that, upon first meeting William Wordsworth, WW made the passing observation "How beautifully the sun sets on that yellow bank!" = which could quite easily become a line in a poem.
Of course poetry today is often more contrived than *ever* but that's what being raised up on pretentious modernism and a silly desire for endless revolution in the arts will do to you.
Knew you would have trouble resisting making a comment :)
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