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Lots of the best (by a number of standards) poetry ever written is deeply political.
by richardwhiuk 6y ago
Lots of the best (by a number of standards) poetry ever written is deeply political.
- DoreenMichele 6y agoLots of art of all sorts is deeply political.
- adolph 6y agored-rag and pink-flag blackshirt and brown strut-mince and stink-rag have all come to town
- monoideism 6y agoIronically, this poem underline's cumming's general contempt for politics. Also, cummings would struggle to be published in today's literary world, since he leaned to the right and was an ardent anti-communist (which began after visiting the Soviet Union in the early 30s).
- slibhb 6y agoLots of art is political. But what makes art good has nothing to do with its politics.
- refenestrator 6y agoIt has to do with truth. Great art and comedy both can illuminate truth in a way that prose and rhetoric can't touch, because they can approach it obliquely and not get hung up on the details. This get missed by the overly ideological, and you can tell because they produce bad art and no comedy.
- antihero 6y agoAbsolutely untrue. Art is something that can make you think and elicit emotion.
- threevox 6y agoExactly. Years later, the political parts seem parochial and irrelevant, whereas the artistic parts remain relevant.