Poetry sucks

[MissInformation]

Originally posted by M. Krass



Umm, but then it wouldn't be the greatest. novella. ever.

Besides, at least where the title is concerned, good Mr. Bradbury was only quoting Shakespeare.

...and I don't think we can blame Shakespeare for living in a time when English sucked He was just working with what he was given.

Poetry takes many forms, and they don't all suck (Dr. Seuss rocks!). The only kind of poetry that sucks, in my mind, is fake poetry - the kind that people write while pretending to be introspective, powerful, philosophical, or critical, but just end up being stupid.

Ah, but Mr. Bradbury is a very poetic writer, and a lot of his novels are poetry in paragraph form. Not all, but a lot, such as that Wicked book, and Dandelion Wine (my favorite) and From the Dust Returned. Of course, I like Shakespeare too, but then, I was an English major and it's required (page 52 on the English Major's handbook).

And for the record, Miss Info, rhyming poetry is fun - if you limit yourself to non rhyming, why, that's like a florist who decides not to use yellow flowers, isn't it? ; )

Actually, I have nothing against yellow, but I would be a florist who wouldn't use pink flowers . I stand by what I said about rhyme. It's good in song, and for limericks and kids books, but in poetry, it's already been done. There is only so many ways you can rhyme words, and the "masters" have already done it. Heck, Hallmark has already done it all on their greeting cards alone. I will admit, however, that I have a whole notebook at home full of rhyming poetry I wrote when I was in my teens. I keep thinking of putting a section on my web-site called "Bad Poetry" and posting some of these rhyming poems of mine there, but they are so embarrassing, I don't know if I can do it.

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