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.:*+ POETRY - CAN IT BE DEFINED +*:.
In a lot of magazines now (Grapevine especially) there seems to be a lot
of poetry - rhyming and prose. Some people will look at it and say in a blunt
fashion.... "That's crap." Is it?
Poetry is written from the very soul of man and tempered by his mind, the
fingers are merely the tools in creating this art-form. No poetry can be bad
because there is always someone who feels it is creative or interesting.
People like Soul/LSD and Telemach/ASCII Unlimited write pages and pages of
poetry. If you were to sit down and look at from an unbiased point of view,
what would you see? You would probably see a collection of thoughts from the
author, but if you lean toward the artistic, it becomes far more figurative.
Sit down and analyse a piece of poetry by a great poet from your country
and then compare it to the work of a "scene" guy. What difference is there?
Both people believe what they are writing in and so are not ashamed of what
might become.
Is poetry deep? Can it be taken as much more than just face value? Sit
down and read a piece of poetry and think about every line that is written.
What does it really mean? A famous English poem called "The Thought Fox"
talks about the writer seeing a great midnight forest outside. Although the
author is writing the poem, he is actually being influenced by the image of a
fix as it comes closer to his house through the forest, the writing appears on
the paper as if by majic. Actually, all the images he sees are inside his
head and are not actually real. To read this poem all the way through at face
value, you would think the writer is mad, but his words have been cunning
wrought so as to give several different pictures from only a few words.
In conclusion, I don't think that anyone can ever say something isn't
poetry because it has some meaning to it and CANNOT be mindless gibber.
Poetry isn't something that you can learn to appreciate, it is something that
draws you in when you first read it, or not at all.
-Tango