Poll: Do you enjoy poetry?
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I have a hard time
Making things rhyme
And my sentence structure
Could use quite the juncture
I'm not one for couplets
They're easier than triplets
Which come out like cutlets
When I try to do them.
I like a good poem
One with a rhythm
Or one that causes a schism
In my mental forum
I don't often do this
But I would be remiss
If I were to dismiss
A fellow poet.
I like some poetry. I'm particularly fond of Kipling.
When the Himalayan Peasant meets the He-Bear in his pride
He will shout to scare the monster, who will often turn aside
But the She-Bear thus accosted rends the Peasant tooth and nail
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male
When the Himalayan Peasant meets the He-Bear in his pride
He will shout to scare the monster, who will often turn aside
But the She-Bear thus accosted rends the Peasant tooth and nail
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male
There's some poetry that I like and some that I loathe. I don't see how anyone can dismiss an entire medium, or claim to love an entire medium. It's like asking if I enjoy books. I loved Catch-22, I hated Twilight. The medium itself is neutral. The enjoyment I get depends on the quality and nature of the work.
Captcha: bad books. Hurr.
Captcha: bad books. Hurr.
I'm a literature student, so I'll let you decide.
Hint: You kinda have to in order to not fail exams.
Hint: You kinda have to in order to not fail exams.
I enjoy it casually.
It's probably about as standard and mainstream as can possibly be with poetry but I've found Invictus to be very beautiful.
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
It's probably about as standard and mainstream as can possibly be with poetry but I've found Invictus to be very beautiful.
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
I don't know why, but I'm not a poetry fan. I love song lyrics and analysing them or finding out what they're about, but just find poetry to be quite dry. That said, I rarely sit down and read a load of poetry, so maybe I'm just remembering what I had to read for school.
I have a love/hate relationship with poetry. I like reading poems. I have a vast collection of anthologies, and I've been published in one myself. However..
I don't like it when other people analyse poetry and try to explain it. Literature in general is filled with this - anticipating the author's mood, feelings, beliefs just by inferring from what he wrote. When someone writes "the curtains were blue", that doesn't mean that the unique pigment of the curtains represents his inner depression. It means the curtains were fucking blue.
I don't like it when other people analyse poetry and try to explain it. Literature in general is filled with this - anticipating the author's mood, feelings, beliefs just by inferring from what he wrote. When someone writes "the curtains were blue", that doesn't mean that the unique pigment of the curtains represents his inner depression. It means the curtains were fucking blue.
