01-18-2022, 12:52 AM
busker: "Modern poetry is so far superior to anything that came before it".
Tim: "Maybe modern poetry seems superior because we are modern readers?"
“If I have seen further,” Isaac Newton wrote in a 1675 letter to fellow scientist Robert Hooke, “it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
The same can be said of modern poetry. We have access to such a wide range of brilliant poets, past and present.
To me, it does not matter the time period, though a poem's place in time often conveys context. I just know what resonates with me, and that can shift depending upon the day, and my mood, much like music. I have been fascinated with trying to create poems for so long that I almost cannot remember a time when I wasn't.
No matter how much I read other poets, and no matter how much I write, I find myself continually fascinated by the interplay of words. I have not really considered whether modern poetry is, in fact, superior. Like I said, I just know what resonates. Then I get very curious as to how and why that happens.
(btw- Thanks for the Craig Arnold link, busker.)
Tim: "Maybe modern poetry seems superior because we are modern readers?"
“If I have seen further,” Isaac Newton wrote in a 1675 letter to fellow scientist Robert Hooke, “it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
The same can be said of modern poetry. We have access to such a wide range of brilliant poets, past and present.
To me, it does not matter the time period, though a poem's place in time often conveys context. I just know what resonates with me, and that can shift depending upon the day, and my mood, much like music. I have been fascinated with trying to create poems for so long that I almost cannot remember a time when I wasn't.
No matter how much I read other poets, and no matter how much I write, I find myself continually fascinated by the interplay of words. I have not really considered whether modern poetry is, in fact, superior. Like I said, I just know what resonates. Then I get very curious as to how and why that happens.
(btw- Thanks for the Craig Arnold link, busker.)