What do you think about poetry?

Question

I used to like it, but now I've grown up, and I can't stand most of it. I usually don't like it because:

a) it is too abstract
b) it is pretentious
c) they are depressing

Don't get me wrong, there is some poetry I still appreciate, but most of it I can't handle.

Thanks for the advice, cfyu. Which reminds me, I need to write in my new blog about how good your mom was last night. She screamed like a banshee.

Don't answer the question if you don't like it.

Answer 1

I agree with your points. Some poetry can be a bit depressing, pretentious, or so abstract that you can't understand what it's about. Poetry used to be a way to express love or to describe something beautiful. Now it's become something else, mainly due to these beatniks who hang around in smoky cafes expressing their rage and their issues with society through their version of "poetry".

Answer 2

I like it, but I like my own the best. It's a talent, it creative. But not all publishers have a good eye or ear for poetry. That's why the choose poems, that wont necessarily be liked by all readers of poetry. But some poems are written to be depressing. I once wrote one that refered to a the result of a car accident, or at least it insinulated one. It was depressing, but everyone who read it thought it I had put my thoughts into it.

Answer 3

Well, a lot of people like it, I like some work. Dude, go write a blog this is a place to ask questions not provide your own personal feelings on the matter. Wait till someone asks the question and then tell them how you feel not the other way around.

Answer 4

I don't dislike it, but I don't seek it out, either. In school I couldn't stand it. Shakespeare gave me headaches and people talked funny back then. Poe....why the hell did they make us read that crazy morbid guy's stuff? I do like e.e. Cummings, and others that style but can't remember the names. I'll read what ever they have in the Washington Post Books section. But I don't think I'd go buy a book of poetry anytime soon.

Answer 5

I go with C. I use to write poetry. I suffered from clinical depression from age 13. When the put me on Zoloft i couldnt write anymore =( darn it, it was good therapy though. I had a Hippy English teacher who loved my poetry and graded me on it cause i never did my homework!!!!!!!! Good thing i wasnt medicated when i took her class!

Answer 6

since i write poetry, i find it to be one of the most pure forms of expressionl some people are not able to say exactly what they think, or voice their thoughts outwardly in a direct fashion. poetry provides an oulet of expressing feelins in a more pure way.

Answer 7

Some poetry is very good. Others are an absolute waste of time.

Answer 8

I agree with you: too abstract, too pretentious. Why do poets think there is something great about writing something that has to be "figured out"? Some poetry is great, but the great majority isn't worth my time.

Answer 9

something of another century .
not much call for poetry these days
rap is the continuence of poetry

Answer 10

What do you think of music? Poetry is music without instruments.

What do I think of poetry?
Well you can ask me
And what I say is this
I think ive gotta Piss