12-07-2011, 07:03 AM
OK, read it now.
I don't actually read much poetry (tbh, the occasional post on here is the full extent) so I don't hold myself out as an expert and I'm well aware that what I'm about to type is somewhat contradictory but anyway, think of me as being like an onion.
1. Great artists make things look easy. Maybe you could write something as good as that, I don't know. I do know that I couldn't.
2. Greatness in art is subjective and, to a degree, subject to considerable pretension. Lets not forget that this:![[Image: 294px-No._5%2C_1948.jpg]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/No._5%2C_1948.jpg/294px-No._5%2C_1948.jpg)
is apparently the greatest painting the world has ever seen. [And, unlike writing a ballad poem, I could easily vomit on a blanket. But nobody would pay me $140,000,000 for my efforts.] So just because some people say something is a great poem doesn't mean it's a great poem. Maybe it was one of his lesser works, rattled off at the end of a 3 day bender.
I don't actually read much poetry (tbh, the occasional post on here is the full extent) so I don't hold myself out as an expert and I'm well aware that what I'm about to type is somewhat contradictory but anyway, think of me as being like an onion.
1. Great artists make things look easy. Maybe you could write something as good as that, I don't know. I do know that I couldn't.
2. Greatness in art is subjective and, to a degree, subject to considerable pretension. Lets not forget that this:
is apparently the greatest painting the world has ever seen. [And, unlike writing a ballad poem, I could easily vomit on a blanket. But nobody would pay me $140,000,000 for my efforts.] So just because some people say something is a great poem doesn't mean it's a great poem. Maybe it was one of his lesser works, rattled off at the end of a 3 day bender.
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."