This Is All Just My Personal Opinion of Course, But I Feel it Quite Strongly

[leia131]

I never heard the phrase "art for art's sake" until this year, but now I'm enamoured with it.

It explains how I feel about poetry. Poems aren't meant to be torn word from word and line from line; they're meant to be read (out loud preferably) and enjoyed and mulled over and feltThat's why poems are exempt from basic ordinary rules of grammar and

Comments

[tea_and_snark]

I definitely promote the "art for art's sake" idea, especially when people think that any piece of writing they produce has to be political or has to make a big dramatic statement

[leia131]

Oh I completely understand dissecting a poem for learning purposes and to write better, I just hate doing it because that's just what you do in a Lit class. Also I'm no good at it. I like reading poetry and liking it or not and then letting it go and moving on with my life. And this is why I am a bio major

[tea_and_snark]

Hm...I can see your frustration! Although we really do pick poems apart word-by-word - literally! It gets boring sometimes, but I still think we learn a lot from it because it increases our awareness of how every single word matters - even if our readers will not consciously acknowledge this.