It's probably just me.
Quote from: Gregory on March 06, 2020, 05:53:44 PM
It's probably just me.
Better than "Am I dead or it is just poetry?"
Americans don't value poetry at all. Because you can't make easy money. Chinese culture thinks that their poetry is their greatest art, particularly the 1300 year old kind, that they still recite (in modern dialect) and study. Do the French value poetry? Or do they just wrap their 250 kinds of cheese in it?
I like the poetry of Ogden Nash - another Nash with a beautiful mind!
Ogden Nash is not funny, he is seriously old hat.
Quote from: Gregory on March 06, 2020, 06:19:03 PM
Ogden Nash is not funny, he is seriously old hat.
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Quote from: Gregory on March 06, 2020, 06:19:03 PM
Ogden Nash is not funny, he is seriously old hat.
So? I'm an old guy, so I like old hat.
Quote from: Unbeliever on March 06, 2020, 07:01:26 PM
So? I'm an old guy, so I like old hat.
Bowler, fedora, summer straw, cowboy, baseball etc?
Quote from: Gregory on March 06, 2020, 05:53:44 PM
It's probably just me.
It's pretty well dead in America, but to be fair I think American literary tradition has always leaned more towards novels than poetry... even our poets have been more storytellers than poets imo.
I don't do poetry much, either reading or writing. But that's not because poetry is dead, merely that I'm not literate enough to care about it.
Poetry is like beauty. It is in the eye of the beholder. I don't read much poetry but I do read some. I dislike poetry for the most part. But then, I really like a tiny bit of it. Gibran's The Prophet is a sort of manual of how to approach life for me and I read it often. McKuen and Farlinghetti I like quite a bit, but rarely read. Poetry is not dead--it is just as much alive for me as it ever was. When I read give me SiFi.
Quote from: Mike Cl on March 07, 2020, 08:35:42 PM
Poetry is like beauty. It is in the eye of the beholder. I don't read much poetry but I do read some. I dislike poetry for the most part. But then, I really like a tiny bit of it. Gibran's The Prophet is a sort of manual of how to approach life for me and I read it often. McKuen and Farlinghetti I like quite a bit, but rarely read. Poetry is not dead--it is just as much alive for me as it ever was. When I read give me SiFi.
Gibran is such an underrated writer, even though "The Prophet" it's one of the most popular books in human history.
Quote from: Shiranu on March 07, 2020, 10:34:11 PM
Gibran is such an underrated writer, even though "The Prophet" it's one of the most popular books in human history.
Yes, I agree. Considering he was a Christian, I am still a little amazed that I even read the guy. But subtract the word 'God' from his writings and he makes great sense.
Quote from: Mike Cl on March 07, 2020, 11:02:38 PM
Yes, I agree. Considering he was a Christian, I am still a little amazed that I even read the guy. But subtract the word 'God' from his writings and he makes great sense.
Like reading French literature in English translation. Pretending Shakespeare wasn't 400 years ago.
I am dead as a poet
maggots crawl through my brain
seriously lacking
Quote from: Gregory on March 17, 2020, 09:22:58 PM
I am dead as a poet
maggots crawl through my brain
seriously lacking
Go to the kennel, if you want to recite doggerel ;-)
I am trying to break out but all that I write is philosophy.
Quote from: Gregory on April 06, 2020, 12:14:18 AM
I am trying to break out but all that I write is philosophy.
Philosophy is written by those with no talent for poetry ;-( ... probably said by Sophocles to Socrates.
Quote from: Baruch on April 06, 2020, 12:42:19 AM
Philosophy is written by those with no talent for poetry ;-( ... probably said by Sophocles to Socrates.
Plato was supposed to be a very talented poet before being influenced by Socrates for the worst.
Quote from: Gregory on April 06, 2020, 02:24:19 AM
Plato was supposed to be a very talented poet before being influenced by Socrates for the worst.
He had broad shoulders and was gay. Munch would have liked him.