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> this terrible high-prestige form is what you'll learn about if you decide to take a poetry class While there are classes in post-modern poetry, most poetry c
by dempseye 10y ago
> this terrible high-prestige form is what you'll learn about if you decide to take a poetry class
While there are classes in post-modern poetry, most poetry classes are not that.
How many poetry classes have you taken?
- thaumasiotes 10y agoFair enough. My experience with poetry classes is limited to elementary school and middle school. Our middle school curriculum consisted of badmouthing poetry that somebody somewhere might have actually liked. The school was proud of having classes taught by a published poet.
- dempseye 10y agoIt's entirely possible that you were taught by a pseud. That's unfortunate if so. I did a degree in English lit. The poetry classes I took looked something like this: - Old and Middle English Poetry (Beowulf, Chaucer, etc.) - Elizabethan Poetry - Paradise Lost - The Shakespearean Sonnet - 18th Century Classicism (Alexander Pope, etc.) - Victorian Poetry (Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, etc.) - 20th Century Irish Poetry (Yeats, that kind of thing) - 20th Century American Modernism Only in the last class was there was anything like you described, and even then it only made up a fraction of the material covered. Here is one of the most critically acclaimed poems of the last 40 years. It's perfectly easy to understand. http://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/a-martian-sends-a-postcard-home/ http://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/a-martian-sends-a-post...