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It's completely ideal to get an average person's opinion on something as primal as poetry. Poetry is for everyone, not just poetry connoisseurs. It's a simplif
by VoodooJuJu 2y ago
It's completely ideal to get an average person's opinion on something as primal as poetry.
Poetry is for everyone, not just poetry connoisseurs. It's a simplified primal expression of language, taking the form of pretty soundbites & snippets, pristine, virginal, uncorrupted by prose and overthinking. Poetry is not the domain of middlebrow academics.
- pclmulqdq 2y agoI used to think that, but I think this is only true if you want to measure broad market appeal. Very few things are broadly marketable, and many of them have niches. "Middlebrow academics" are the ones who go to the poetry shelf of their local bookstore and pick up anthologies and they are the ones who go to poetry slams, and so on.