Forlorn Drifter wrote:I think poetry is literally the most stereotypical and sappy way to express emotion in existence. While it can be beautiful, there's quite a bit where I just don't get how some people fawn over it.
We're coming up on Valentine's Day. Im'ma write you a sappy love poem, and after you read it and fall for me you'll understand.
I believe a lot of the admiration comes from the effort it takes to write a beautiful, lyrical poem, and its nice (also ego boosting I'm sure) for the recipient to know they've inspired that kind of passion in someone.
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Been doing the Literary Criticism contest for UIL lately, so I've gotten to read a lot of poems and such, and it just kind of gets me really. As many as we've read that really do have a way of words or make powerful emotion, we've also read many that seem like they were written by a 13 year old who wanted to ask a girl to the Valentine's dance but was too much of a wuss to actually say it straight out.
I like to interpret them and all, but when they aren't professional they don't work for me, really. I was really pleased with the Browning poem where he talks about his love and how he strangles her to death with her own hair. It was nice.
I've also had people suggest I should write poetry to express my emotions, but I find that stupid.
There once was a man from Central Texas
Whose sad views on life he would tell us
"These poems are stupid" the Texan would say
"Reading them for UIL has ruined my day!"
The Forlorn Texan grew increasingly irate
"Even thirteen year olds can write things this 'great'!"
"I'm angry, I'm mad, I'm becoming disgusted!"
"Explaining love through poems is not to be trusted!"
As he read more lines his rage only grew
His heart turned to stone and he further withdrew
Still slogging through his mountain of prose
Our Forlorn Drifter's eyes suddenly froze
"What's this?" he asked, with a glint in his eyes
"A poem about love where the woman dies!?"
"It's morbid, it's shocking, and it seems to entice!"
"This poem, indeed, is actually quite nice!"
"Strangulation, violence, and love unrequited!"
"A critique of amour by a poet who's tried it."
"This is the winner, the rest of these suck,"
"I've found a poem I can pull from the muck!"
The lesson, it seems, yet passed the man by
Poetry, one learns, is in the beholder's eye.
That the tragic poem spoke to him reveals quite a bit
But mostly that verse and reader are all about fit.
