i just read a supremely satisfying essay the other day about why poetry isn't "important" anymore (though, like you, i would disagree with that sentiment). you might like it :]
Is "poetry" irrelevant, or just the poems that people have classified as important? I don't think "poetry" can really be relevant or irrelevant, since to me it's simply a form of writing in which the structure is relevant as well as the content. On the other hand, poems from another era can hardly be faulted for not having the same impact today as they might have in the past. (Note that that "past" where they had an impact could still be years, decades, centuries after the poem was written!)
Dead Poets Society. A good poem does not need to be analyzed, and analyzation does not make a poem good. (That said, there have been occasions in which analyzing literature/poetry is interesting
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sooo jealous. :]
i just read a supremely satisfying essay the other day about why poetry isn't "important" anymore (though, like you, i would disagree with that sentiment). you might like it :]
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Dead Poets Society. A good poem does not need to be analyzed, and analyzation does not make a poem good. (That said, there have been occasions in which analyzing literature/poetry is interesting ( ... )
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