why is poetry so boring?

Answer 1

You think poetry is boring.

Answer 2

Poetry is not boring. Poetry is beautiful. Poetry are feelings and thoughts maybe you should try to write one and maybe you will like it. I have been writting poetry for a while already and I have over 50 of them and some stories too. Again I say to you POETRY IS NOT BORING...GOD BLESS

Answer 3

When we write poems we try and put into words feeling, what we see or what we wish was. So, poetry is a painting, a memory, deep in thought or really shallow, a beginning of something or just an end. It is up to you how you read poems. But all poems have a meaning and most of the time you can read what that meaning is the poet wanted you to see, sometimes you find one just for you. Try reading a poem in a slow way with meaning in your voice and open your mind to its play on words.
When you read poetry you have to try and see what the writer is trying to show you. Open your mind and do not read each word as a word, read it as if you were watching it happen.
Like love is like a red red rose. Think about what looking at that rose makes you feel. That is what love is. That feeling you get while looking at a really dark red rose.
I hope this helps you understand poems. They do not all have to be pretty words.

Answer 4

Poetry is only boring to someone with a short attention or cognition span. The same can be said about classical music, and especially opera. In a society that lives "so fast", and is bombarded with "2 second" sound bites as of way of receiving media and politicians, and to figure out what to waste your money on (ie. commericals), it is understandable that you feel poetry is boring.

However, if you learn to turn the tv off, look past the sound bites, and find yourself actually outside among people, among nature, and expose your senses to the world around you, and discover that there is more in this world than oneself, you'll be surprised how amazing the diversity of poetry is.

In short, poetry goes into depth, and expresses words with deeper meaning.

Give it another shot, and you'll hopefully see for youself!

Try these poets/poems:

Walt Whitman...Song of Myself
Allen Ginsburg...America
William Carlos Williams....the red wheelbarrow
Nick Flynn....Bag of Mice
Dorrianne Laux....The Memory of Trees

Answer 5

You are in good company since quite a number of people(mostly students) usually find analyzing poetry quite a tedious and borring assignment.
However, writing poetry is one of the most inspiring human activities. Hence, critical analysis is slightly different from the passion and creative impulses behind a poem's aesthetic appeal and pleasurable feelings that often purge our body soul!
Poetry may be borring also if you neither know how to sing nor appreciate other's songs and tunes. But that is quite rare since to be human being fundamentally suggests being poetic too. In other words, rarely do we come across a person who does not enjoy all kinds of music and songs! Life is rhythmical and to be a person often means also to be able to reflect upon, think in images and comprehend abstract concepts And of course to be able to enjoy such aspects produced by others. That is the most fundamental thing that separates us from other creatures. We are able to use the resources of language innovatively, imaginatively, and creatively for aesthetic effects. High school and undergrad students often find poetry borring because the syllabus usually requires and prepare them to be future critics of poetry not creative poets. Hence the demands for critical analyses and evaluative approaches are emphasized. Such exercises often give such students, the unfortunate impression that poetry is borring and not worth their while. Hence the oft heard student question: What would I do with a degree in English majoring in poetry?
The bottomline is that there is a difference between studying poetry to pass exams (often borring) and being able to express our feelings and passions in poetically and/or enjoy and derive pleasure from such works by others (often inspiring). After all, we are all capable of loving and hating, commending and condemning, laughing and crying etc. In short we are all a microcosm of the wider universe as far as rhythm, beauty, and symmetry are concerned.

Read this poem by e e cummings aloud and listen to your mind's ear for the sound. Is it borring? Then try analyzing and evaluating its meaning. Notice the difference!!

IF

If freckles were lovely, and day was night,
And measles were nice and a lie warn’t a lie,
Life would be delight, —
But things couldn’t go right
For in such a sad plight
I wouldn’t be I.

If earth was heaven and now was hence,
And past was present, and false was true,
There might be some sense
But I’d be in suspense
For on such a pretense
You wouldn’t be you.

If fear was plucky, and globes were square,
And dirt was cleanly and tears were glee
Things would seem fair, —
Yet they’d all despair,
For if here was there
We wouldn’t be we.


Good luck

Answer 6

Try looking at different styles of poetry. It's not all boring. It just tends to be that some of the stuff they make us read in school is boring to many of us, but a few may find it uplifting. It's all in your personal taste.

Answer 7

Probably because you don't understand it. Anything is boring if you have no idea what's going on. And if the words don't move you, then you have no incentive to understand.

There are many different kinds of poetry. Even if you find classical poetry boring, you might enjoy the work of some of the more contemporary and experimental poets, like Allen Ginsburg's "Howl": https://notes.utk.edu/bio/greenberg.nsf/0/6f7dd8b9270db5c585256d0d001e0a93?OpenDocument

Answer 8

There are many kinds/styles of poetry. Perhaps the issue is that you just haven't found the one that speaks to you yet.

I agree that some poetry can be boring and there's much of it I don't enjoy at all...there is some though that's really pleasant to hear and even fun/amusing. ☺

Answer 9

That is the nature of poetry, boring. Many fatalities have come from the writers that are "poets". That is also the reason why we can't find out why Poetry is boring or why you can't defy gravity. Goodbye.

Answer 10

It's sometimes boring. But rap is technically poetry, so it can't always be boring.