07-05-2014, 09:50 AM
I'm sorry, but is this a forum for poets or for people who prefer exact words for exact topics without any sense of poetic imagination? I'm a political activist who's fought for the low-income neighborhoods who are constantly attacked by wealthy businessmen and banks, threatening to throw them onto the streets without a home. This is gentrification - the replacing of urban low-income homes for wealthy families.
And this complaining of ambiguity - what!? When did ambiguity become a no-no for poetry? When did providing poems which can be translated to any specific person with enough imagination become a problem for poetry readers? When I read poetry, I'm not looking for poems which I know I agree with; I look for poetry which is creative and stylish and has the ability to speak many stories at once to different readers.
It's honestly sad to see poetry go down the drain by people who necessitate bluntness over imaginative poetic discourse.
And this complaining of ambiguity - what!? When did ambiguity become a no-no for poetry? When did providing poems which can be translated to any specific person with enough imagination become a problem for poetry readers? When I read poetry, I'm not looking for poems which I know I agree with; I look for poetry which is creative and stylish and has the ability to speak many stories at once to different readers.
It's honestly sad to see poetry go down the drain by people who necessitate bluntness over imaginative poetic discourse.