Why do many teenagers write drivel and call it poetry?

Question

on this yahoo site, even if it does not rhyme, scan or contain an original thought or feeling?
My stuff is, at least, amusing and you can sing it.

'guitarpi': I hate your tolerant attitude, especially because it is fair and true.

'Wolf' of the dictionary
Your words are half wise
And today they are semi-pictionary.
But there aint no room, for this space lacks size
And so no thumbs up, or similar ticktionary.

Annabel: I hide nothing. You can see all my questions and answers, drunk or sober. Maybe the follies of these youths are as nothing compared to the follies of my middle age?
I shall now write a Xmas poem on poetry site to allow them and you revenge on me.

Blimey you are right, sorry; I think I've fixed it now.

Answer 1

Ah yes, Pel. But for every one of our long, deep, elegiac ejaculations ( so to speak) a teenager can explode with four or five more in the space of an hour.. sans (for most) much thought, effort or spiritual aplomb. While the Muse must sometimes sing loudly to gain our attention, she need only wink to get youthful fingers madly engaged over a keyboard. To paraphrase poet TS Eliot's words in Four Quartets: "they have the experience but miss the meaning." That, my friend catches up with many of us much later.

Answer 2

Usually when someone is untrained and has had little practice at exercising a skill, the product they create is less appealing than the things they create later in their career. Teenage Poets are obviously less experienced at writing Poetry than they will be when they are more mature. Just as some music created by a very small number of young people is excellent some poetry created by young people will be quite good. The majority of the art work of all kinds created by young people is enjoyed only by their parents and grand parents. Poetry is not an exception.

The great poetry of the future will also be created by people who wrote poorly at first and then improved there skills.

Answer 3

I have to agree with parts of the first 3 answers. No real offense meant to you, but unless you were a Savant, or Prodigy, I want to assume you may have once been at the beginnings of exploring means and methods to communicate feelings; express emotions.

By the way,,,There are no original thoughts, only variations in thoughts, and how they are stated, are recycled. A good analogy is Music.

It might behoove you, me, us, to relate to, and encourage the "newbie" as the world can hardly be damaged by one more expression.

Now, with no real offense to you, and not having read a word you've written, I suspect the dictionary can be "sung" and found to be ammusing.

Just my two cents.

Steven Wolf

Added Thought: Pelagius; If I could ever be insulted by barbs; you haven't enough ammunition.

Answer 4

True-to-the-that.
I'm not so concerned about the rhyming part as I am the lack of original thought.
Seems that Y!A's poetry section is merely a journal/diary to a lot of so-called young "poets" these days.

Answer 5

I think I prefer it when they do not make it rhyme: it is even worse.
Having said that, I do not really know what an "original feeling" is.
And yes, as TD says, why do you hide your "stuff"?

Annab.

Answer 6

Okay! Your little retort there is funny. I also read your bio. You have '™' qualities. If, as you say, you are nimble, why are you privatized? How can we throw rotten fruit at you if you refuse to let us take a peek?

Answer 7

Now, now . . . at one time you were an inexperienced writer and poet, so extend some understanding to our young teens.

They will learn eventually like you did.

Answer 8

Well after reading your question, one old quote kept coming to mind, "One's man's innate rambling's are another's golden word's."

Answer 9

WE DON'T IT IS WHAT WE ARE THINKING!!!
I should know cause you answered one of my poems. now please don't be so mean?!