2006-09-17 14:04:00 · 17 answers · asked by Backtash123 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
You must not have read very much poetry to think that it is all boring or bad! Why not try your hand at writing some yourself, about your life. I bet it wouldn't seem so boring! Give some poets a second chance-- maybe stop by your local public library and browse through the titles.
My favorite poet (well, today) is Ogden Nash. Try reading "Very Like A Whale":
http://plagiarist.com/poetry/534/
I also love Dean Young, particularly his book "First Course in Turbulence". There is nothing boring about that book. Pablo Neruda and Carolyn Kizer are also favorites.
Besides, dirty limericks are poetry and they aren't boring, now are they ;)
2006-09-17 14:23:04 · answer #1 · answered by Obi_San 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Poetry
I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all
this fiddle.
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
discovers in
it after all, a place for the genuine.
Hands that can grasp, eyes
that can dilate, hair that can rise
if it must, these things are important not because a
high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because
they are
useful. When they become so derivative as to become
unintelligible,
the same thing may be said for all of us, that we
do not admire what
we cannot understand: the bat
holding on upside down or in quest of something to
eat, elephants pushing, a wild horse taking a roll, a tireless wolf
under
a tree, the immovable critic twitching his skin like a horse that
feels a
flea, the base-
ball fan, the statistician--
nor is it valid
to discriminate against 'business documents and
school-books'; all these phenomena are important. One must
make a distinction
however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the
result is not poetry,
nor till the poets among us can be
'literalists of
the imagination'--above
insolence and triviality and can present
for inspection, 'imaginary gardens with real toads in them', shall
we have
it. In the meantime, if you demand on the one hand,
the raw material of poetry in
all its rawness and
that which is on the other hand
genuine, you are interested in poetry.
2006-09-17 21:09:52 · answer #2 · answered by monkey 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, there are good poems and bad poems. Well, i will give u an example for a bad poem- THE CLOUD by Percy Byshe Shelley. I really,absolutely detest Shelley's poems. Not only are they complicated but they are also confusing and vague. i really dont undrstand why he is such a great poet. He has no right to be compared to greats like Wordsworth and Keats. Infact I really like their poems especially Ode to the poets bye W.B. Keats. Robert Louis Stevenson's poems are fast moving and keeps u entertained. Edgar allen poe's poems are confusing but they are nevertheless interestingly macabre and u will either hate it or love it.
2006-09-17 23:59:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most likely, yes, if it has some sort of personal meaning to you. I don't think any poem is more boring or worse than another, but I may like one better because of its choice of words or phrases. I agree with Rebel14, most of the time, only intelligent people can ever understand and comprehend the true meaning of a poem.
2006-09-17 22:24:40 · answer #4 · answered by Norah 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ever read ee cummings? or how about DEATH OF THE BALL TURRET GUNNER. Look it up. I promise it won't bore you. Or how about the poem named simply FUELED. Read lymerick poems. Some are really funny. And any song you ever liked probably started out as a poem. There are poems to fit every taste. Spooky poems, sick disturbing poems, sweet love poems, historical poems, funny poems, you name it. If you like to read at all you can find poetry that you will like to read.
2006-09-17 21:17:53 · answer #5 · answered by Judy H 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your question tends to imply that you either cannot or do not:
study music, play chess, martial arts, tennis, fence, acted in a play, photograph, go to plays or ballet, willingly support your mother with house chores without being asked, from time to time, give your mother a flower, or the girl that you say you care about. And you have never spent time in Europe.
2006-09-17 21:21:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is. Poetry rocks, but only intelligent, emotional people can understand it. So I guess that rules you out.
And technically, any song you've ever heard is poetry, at least the lyrics are. With one exception, and that would be music by Paris Hilton.
I aim to please...not really. I don't really care.
2006-09-17 21:45:18 · answer #7 · answered by Smiles Like She Means It 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes! Try reading some Poe. The band isn't bad either.
2006-09-17 23:53:36 · answer #8 · answered by Grommitt18 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you listen to music that has lyrics to it? Then the answer would be YES. All music lyrics are poems of one kind or another.
2006-09-17 21:13:59 · answer #9 · answered by songbird092962 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most people who read or write poems use thought to translate emotions,when people who dont like peoms use emotion to translate thought.(I'm mad, I'm bored)Poets share, non-poets(most not all) are selfish
2006-09-17 21:15:54 · answer #10 · answered by TYRONE S 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋