12-22-2018, 02:17 AM
River,
Good point about this site being social media. Never thought of it that way for some reason. Maybe it has to do with using more thought when you interact with others and their work as opposed to twitter and fb where it's all like "nice job!" or "wow!" or the far much worse "what drugs were you on when you wrote this?"
As far as poetry on yt, I hardly come across those videos. If I'm ever watching anything analytical on there it's on film or some sort of visual media. Analytical videos on music I watch more often than analytical videos on poetry, mostly bc, like I said, I hardly come across those videos.
As for twitter and instagram, I don't find anything wrong with trying to spread your poetry on there (I might be biased because I do this). If you believe that you have something different to offer to the masses, then what's the harm in trying? Make no mistake, I don't think I'm some cutting edge revolutionary; I just have fun with my presence as a *ahem* "poet" on social media sites like those. And my main gripe with poets who actually do put out good work and condemn social media is that it just makes them seem really old and bitter, like the internet is some sort of witchcraft that will bring about the end to "true poetry". If they care about the future of poetry as an art form, they should at least try to have fun and experiment with the interface of social media.
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rowens,
That's dumb. In an ideal world, poetry would be like film or music, where it's consumed every day by everyday people, and these everyday people could discern good from bad poetry like everyday people, back in the pragmatic world, recognize a good movie from a bad one and at least let the mediocre movies slip through the cracks (or chasms) of audience commendation.
These poets who save themselves sound like Catholic schoolgirls.
Good point about this site being social media. Never thought of it that way for some reason. Maybe it has to do with using more thought when you interact with others and their work as opposed to twitter and fb where it's all like "nice job!" or "wow!" or the far much worse "what drugs were you on when you wrote this?"
As far as poetry on yt, I hardly come across those videos. If I'm ever watching anything analytical on there it's on film or some sort of visual media. Analytical videos on music I watch more often than analytical videos on poetry, mostly bc, like I said, I hardly come across those videos.
As for twitter and instagram, I don't find anything wrong with trying to spread your poetry on there (I might be biased because I do this). If you believe that you have something different to offer to the masses, then what's the harm in trying? Make no mistake, I don't think I'm some cutting edge revolutionary; I just have fun with my presence as a *ahem* "poet" on social media sites like those. And my main gripe with poets who actually do put out good work and condemn social media is that it just makes them seem really old and bitter, like the internet is some sort of witchcraft that will bring about the end to "true poetry". If they care about the future of poetry as an art form, they should at least try to have fun and experiment with the interface of social media.
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rowens,
That's dumb. In an ideal world, poetry would be like film or music, where it's consumed every day by everyday people, and these everyday people could discern good from bad poetry like everyday people, back in the pragmatic world, recognize a good movie from a bad one and at least let the mediocre movies slip through the cracks (or chasms) of audience commendation.
These poets who save themselves sound like Catholic schoolgirls.