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poetry seems like a lost art
| orchid theater stage friendly grandma | 02/17/18 |
| Disgusting State | 02/17/18 |
| orchid theater stage friendly grandma | 02/17/18 |
| Disgusting State | 02/17/18 |
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Date: February 17th, 2018 5:54 PM Author: orchid theater stage friendly grandma (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896145&forum_id=2#35426685) |
Date: February 17th, 2018 5:56 PM Author: Disgusting State i don't think it's even taught anymore in the formal sense. people don't actually realize that "poems" are not just fractured paragraphs. many "poems" are just poorly-formatted chunks of text and don't actually represent anything poetic. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896145&forum_id=2#35426698) |
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Date: February 17th, 2018 5:57 PM Author: orchid theater stage friendly grandma especially "slam poetry". jesus christ. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896145&forum_id=2#35426700) |
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Date: February 17th, 2018 6:03 PM Author: Disgusting State yeah; it just lacks structure and therefore lacks meaning. "poetry" used to be taught like a formal discipline, with textbooks. you'd have to learn about meter and rhyme-schemes and about literature in general, and about the elements of greco-roman mythology that crop up repeatedly in western poetry, and so on. in other words, formal stuff that you had to memorize and recite on tests. not just "write what you feel." it was considered laughable that someone would actually attempt to WRITE poems without a working understanding of what they actually were.
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Date: February 17th, 2018 6:08 PM Author: orchid theater stage friendly grandma I think it's because "free verse" isn't quite as free as a lot of people think it is. There's still certain stylistic and metrical elements to it that have to be observed. It's not just prose with random line breaks/pauses (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896145&forum_id=2#35426757) |
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Date: February 17th, 2018 6:10 PM Author: hairless 180 chapel exactly. free verse is fine if its written by someone like t.s. eliot who knows what they are doing. awful if it is written by some shitlib who just litters random phrases and punctuation across a page (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896145&forum_id=2#35426772) |
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Date: February 17th, 2018 6:17 PM Author: Disgusting State there was a famous textbook example about the meaning of a "poem" involving a bit of text from a late-1800's geometry guide. someone discovered that one of the book's sentences could be formatted so that it followed the same rhyme-scheme as "in memorium" by tennyson:
"And hence no force, however great,
Can draw a cord, however fine,
Into a horizontal line
Which shall be absolutely straight."
that's the same meter as:
"I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."
but yet, the geometry text is not really a "poem." it could plausibly be part of a larger poem, but by itself, it's not very meaningful, because it lacks a grander narrative. |
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Date: February 17th, 2018 6:21 PM Author: Glittery depressive The geometry sentence has its own intended elegance...the sounds and succinctness appealed to the author without altogether knowing why. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896145&forum_id=2#35426847) |
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Date: September 21st, 2018 6:06 PM Author: Beady-eyed nowag tanning salon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896145&forum_id=2#36859307) |
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Date: February 17th, 2018 5:58 PM Author: salmon cruise ship Poetry is thriving after rebranding to "rap music" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896145&forum_id=2#35426702) |
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Date: February 17th, 2018 5:59 PM Author: orchid theater stage friendly grandma rap is fine but not as a replacement for poetry (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896145&forum_id=2#35426712) |
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Date: February 17th, 2018 6:11 PM Author: hideous menage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896145&forum_id=2#35426774) |
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Date: February 17th, 2018 6:19 PM Author: startled orchestra pit son of senegal real poetry is exceedingly difficult and all the smart people died out a long time ago. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896145&forum_id=2#35426838) |
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Date: February 17th, 2018 6:35 PM Author: orchid theater stage friendly grandma 120 IQ avg Greeks churning out poems like nbd (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896145&forum_id=2#35426926) |
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Date: February 17th, 2018 6:39 PM Author: Disgusting State actual poets usually treated poetry like a job. they didn't just scribble something down and run with it. even a very skilled, intelligent guy like keats would supposedly revise a single line 50+ times to get it right before offering stuff for publication. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896145&forum_id=2#35426960) |
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Date: February 17th, 2018 6:59 PM Author: titillating factory reset button Shrews now think if they haves a masters, they are writers and poets (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896145&forum_id=2#35427144) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 6:14 PM Author: racy dilemma associate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896145&forum_id=2#35432816) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 6:10 PM Author: Glittery depressive (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896145&forum_id=2#35432795) |
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Date: February 17th, 2018 7:03 PM Author: startled orchestra pit son of senegal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896145&forum_id=2#35427183) |
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Date: February 17th, 2018 6:20 PM Author: racy dilemma associate art is a lost art (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896145&forum_id=2#35426841) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 6:15 PM Author: Hyperactive Ivory Library Subject: nigger: a poem nigger. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896145&forum_id=2#35432827) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 6:17 PM Author: orchid theater stage friendly grandma eloquent (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896145&forum_id=2#35432837) |
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Date: September 21st, 2018 6:06 PM Author: Beady-eyed nowag tanning salon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896145&forum_id=2#36859309) |
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Date: September 21st, 2018 6:39 PM Author: henna learning disabled locus As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man -- There are only four things certain since Social Progress began -- That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire -- And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! |