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Apparently, I've managed some kind of masterful achievement. I have managed to create a thread that achieved a grand total of three page views. Since it doesn't seem too much of a stretch to assume that 50 people have been active on these forums since the thread was made, it looks as though I have fashioned quite the repulsive title.

So, my question is, why does poetry seem to carry such a negative connotation in this day and age? Are people simple fed up with "aspiring" poets who insert so little effort into their works that it hardly seems appropriate to call them "works", so little passion into their poetry that many don't consider it to be poetry, and so completely ignore style that their writings are also unworthy of the title "art"?

Um, again? With the gaps filled in? It's been a long day.

Damn, I was hoping this would be a self referring post.

I don't like poetry, I blame this on being forced to read it and memorise quotes from it in two different languages in school.

Um, again? With the gaps filled in? It's been a long day.

In short, why does the word "poetry" in a title cause people to avoid a given thread?

bc0z p03try 13 4 n00bs m/-\n!

In short, why does the word "poetry" in a title cause people to avoid a given thread?

For the same reason that "Goatse" draws them to it.

Damn, I was hoping this would be a self referring post.

I don't understand what you are trying to say...

In short, why does the word "poetry" in a title cause people to avoid a given thread?

One would assume because people here don't like poetry.

Damn, I was hoping this would be a self referring post.

I don't understand what you are trying to say...

poetry is too hard to follow and tends to be pointless at bringing a point across for how much effort must be put in (though I’m a brilliant poet)

Also it doesn’t help that we learn it in school

I just hate Poetry, I'm more of a horror short story/novel kind of guy. I think it just comes down to prefrences.

I don't understand what you are trying to say...

Self Referential Story (http://consc.net/misc/moser.html)

Self Referential Story (http://consc.net/misc/moser.html)

Who ever writ that had waaay to much time on his hands.

In short, why does the word "poetry" in a title cause people to avoid a given thread?

It doesn't, not necessarily. Are we talking about a previous thread here? Sometimes people don't look at threads, no big deal.

Who ever writ that had waaay to much time on his hands.

Much like most people on the internets.

Damn, I was hoping this would be a self referring post.

I don't like poetry, I blame this on being forced to read it and memorise quotes from it in two different languages in school.
I think it should be closed or deleted in spite!

I think it should be closed or deleted in spite!

I agree with the antipodean.

In short, why does the word "poetry" in a title cause people to avoid a given thread?Because poetry on any forum is almost always schmaltzy, emotional drivel which leaves the reader wanting to gag.

On top of that, poetry's anti-intellectual and by design is attempting to engage the emotions rather than reason. It's trying to slip a point by as a "moral to the story" rather than honestly state it and engage in debate. Either that or it turns out to be emo moaning which really doesn't have a point that the readers would care about.

After seeing this ploy a couple of times, one quickly learns not to open threads which start with poetry, and to scroll by posts which contain it.

Same goes for posts which quote song lyrics, btw.

Generally speaking, most poetry threads are inhabited by whiney emo types.

Not judging, just saying. ;)

Moooooooooo!

Bob Dylan is a good poet.

So, my question is, why does poetry seem to carry such a negative connotation in this day and age? Are people simple fed up with "aspiring" poets who insert so little effort into their works that it hardly seems appropriate to call them "works", so little passion into their poetry that many don't consider it to be poetry, and so completely ignore style that their writings are also unworthy of the title "art"?

I think that schools address poetry in the wrong manner. It always seems like such a hard task to "analyse" and "deconstruct" a poem, so I think that children and teenagers view poetry in a negative light. However, I also think that our society is becomming less interested in all art, not just poetry. If a "work of art" doesn't take the form of a box-office hit, and have Brad Pitt in it, it's not going to capture the attention of the general population.

[/End badly punctuated rant.]

Apparently, I've managed some kind of masterful achievement. I have managed to create a thread that achieved a grand total of three page views. Since it doesn't seem too much of a stretch to assume that 50 people have been active on these forums since the thread was made, it looks as though I have fashioned quite the repulsive title.

So, my question is, why does poetry seem to carry such a negative connotation in this day and age? Are people simple fed up with "aspiring" poets who insert so little effort into their works that it hardly seems appropriate to call them "works", so little passion into their poetry that many don't consider it to be poetry, and so completely ignore style that their writings are also unworthy of the title "art"?



POETRY! I WASTED 5 SECONDS OF MY LIFE READING YOUR LITTLE INTRO TO FIND A THREAD ABOUT POETRY!?

Apparently, I've managed some kind of masterful achievement. I have managed to create a thread that achieved a grand total of three page views. Since it doesn't seem too much of a stretch to assume that 50 people have been active on these forums since the thread was made, it looks as though I have fashioned quite the repulsive title.

So, my question is, why does poetry seem to carry such a negative connotation in this day and age? Are people simple fed up with "aspiring" poets who insert so little effort into their works that it hardly seems appropriate to call them "works", so little passion into their poetry that many don't consider it to be poetry, and so completely ignore style that their writings are also unworthy of the title "art"?I consider Poetry to be lilke playing the Bagpipes. when done properly it is beautiful, but with it's not done properly, it's a pain to hear and to read.

unfortunatly, inorder to get good, one must first be bad.