I have tried and tried to like it. I was taught it badly at school, forced to memorise pages and pages of Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats, which was a bad start. I got over that and began to appreciate it, but then...I don't know..meh..
Modern poetry in particular I find unreadable.
Anyone want to suggest something that might encourage me to appreciate it a bit more?
Poetry?...meh..
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Stuff written by people you know?Rum wrote:I have tried and tried to like it. I was taught it badly at school, forced to memorise pages and pages of Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats, which was a bad start. I got over that and began to appreciate it, but then...I don't know..meh..
Modern poetry in particular I find unreadable.
Anyone want to suggest something that might encourage me to appreciate it a bit more?
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Re: Poetry?...meh..
Do you want some stuff that never rhymes,
Or shocking stuff, with gruesome crimes,
Or cryptic meanings, 'tween the lines,
Or lovey-dovey, 'please be mine's?
Perhaps you crave a rigid meter,
Or a gushing ode to a girl named Rita,
Or something that ends before the payo
Poetry is all these things
It's sometimes is very badly written too
And it doesn't always rhyme
Or make any elephant.
Or shocking stuff, with gruesome crimes,
Or cryptic meanings, 'tween the lines,
Or lovey-dovey, 'please be mine's?
Perhaps you crave a rigid meter,
Or a gushing ode to a girl named Rita,
Maybe
you
want a
fancy
layout,Or something that ends before the payo
Poetry is all these things
It's sometimes is very badly written too
And it doesn't always rhyme
Or make any elephant.
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And it doesn't always rhyme
Or make any elephant commit a crime.
Or make any elephant commit a crime.
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I dislike almost all poetry except haiku and other short, concise poems. Ordinary poetry bores the shit out of me.
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Never, ever, ever, fix my pomes again!floppit wrote:And it doesn't always rhyme
Or make any elephant commit a crime.
Or I'll rhyme "floppit" with "stop it" in the next one!
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Now here with our segueXamonas Chegwé wrote:Never, ever, ever, fix my pomes again!floppit wrote:And it doesn't always rhyme
Or make any elephant commit a crime.
Or I'll rhyme "floppit" with "stop it" in the next one!
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Fuck - I can't cope with doggerel sober. Be back in a bit!
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Re: Poetry?...meh..
:twisted:Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Never, ever, ever, fix my pomes again!floppit wrote:And it doesn't always rhyme
Or make any elephant commit a crime.
Or I'll rhyme "floppit" with "stop it" in the next one!
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The Golden Rule of Poetry - by XC
They say it is an awful thing to rhyme
The name of that bright satellite above
With that of this fair month (the sixth.) A crime
That poisons any heartfelt poem of love
And turns it into doggerel and slop.
So careful when you turn your pen to write
And catch yourself and force yourself to stop
If ever that dire couplet's in your sight.
No verse, not epic ballad, ode nor sonnet
Can escape the curse of this dread pairing;
Any rhyme that has their touch upon it
Will leave the sob'rest critic red and swearing!
So careful if your line ends with a "Moon"
Resist the urge to counter with a "June"!
They say it is an awful thing to rhyme
The name of that bright satellite above
With that of this fair month (the sixth.) A crime
That poisons any heartfelt poem of love
And turns it into doggerel and slop.
So careful when you turn your pen to write
And catch yourself and force yourself to stop
If ever that dire couplet's in your sight.
No verse, not epic ballad, ode nor sonnet
Can escape the curse of this dread pairing;
Any rhyme that has their touch upon it
Will leave the sob'rest critic red and swearing!
So careful if your line ends with a "Moon"
Resist the urge to counter with a "June"!
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Hoping for guidance and inspiration in Ratz is clearly a misguided fantasy *sigh* 
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What are you after, Rum? I can tell you some poets I like but there is no guarantee that you would be impressed.Rum wrote:Hoping for guidance and inspiration in Ratz is clearly a misguided fantasy *sigh*
Probably the best advice I could give is to buy an anthology and then seek out more by the poets that impress you.
Whatever you do, don't go hunting on poetry forums - unless you enjoy the company of dreadful poets with no sense of humour and an exaggerated sense of their own worth, poetry trolls, pompous twats that sneer on everything, and teenagers trying to get someone to do their Eng Lit homework for them!
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I think I have hit on a resolution and answer.
I don't actually like poetry.
I don't actually like poetry.
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I'm not a big fan of "serious" poetry. The only one I've returned to again and again is Pablo Neruda, and even then, only his love poems.
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