01-09-2020, 03:08 PM
The average semi professional poet today is better at his craft than Shakespeare, if only because he has access to everything that Shakespeare knew, and what came after. It is no different than the average elite runner being able to break the 4 minute mile today, or the average mathematician today being better at solving any problem than Carl Gauss.
Yet, a lot of modern poetry leaves very little impression on you. There is a sense of repetition, of derivation, a lack of having new things to say, and nearly all poetry in English is just first world problems packaged as ennui. Does anyone else feel this way?
Yet, a lot of modern poetry leaves very little impression on you. There is a sense of repetition, of derivation, a lack of having new things to say, and nearly all poetry in English is just first world problems packaged as ennui. Does anyone else feel this way?