puzzleoverit asked: could you show examples of something not stone age, because to me poetry still means a restrictive thought that has not really changed. It's like a neatly arranged museum. It stays within a predictive pattern that does not challenge the mind to see new possibilities. I know there are distant voices out there but it is buried with 90 million pages of the same dulling poetry I see every day on here.
Spoken word, modernist, post-modernist, DADA, anti-poetry, etc. I’m confused as to what you exactly mean when you say “stone age” poetry. If by “pattern” you mean poetry with fixed verse, you don’t see nearly as many sonnets, sestinas or villanelles today. Personally, I think it’s because fixed verse is harder to do.
To make a blanket statement and state that poetry is this or that is easy to do, and always difficult to back up. We need to judge poems and poetry based on what it is, not by what it isn’t.
Additionally, the lines between artistic mediums have been blurred in the last century. Is poetry words on paper, or an approach to something more specific? Food for thought. I don’t know poetry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzY2-GRDiPM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC1s9kfEvFs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5J1q6FIlQ8
http://fs.gallup.unm.edu//NonPoems.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmWZOsVtqR0&feature=related
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lament-3/
Check out Slamnation and Def Jam Poetry for more spoken word.
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popsible said:
Poetry might just be a bunch of words that sound good together.
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