If I were to explain as succinctly as I can the failure of contemporary poetry, I can do no better than to post this meme.
>>24695982Poetry still exists, it's just published as sound recordings set to music rather than in print.
>>24696226>nigga nigga nigga nigga>one hunnid pah-cent nigga>nigga nigga nigga nigga>two hunnid pah-cent nigga
>>24696283I didn't say specifically rap (though some of it absolutely is poetry), but music in general- the distinction between poetry and song is a fairly modern concept.
Oll Korrect, but the influence of style and formatting extends far beyond pottery. My aunt is the most hideous soul incarnate in this modern day. Yet she managed to marry herself to a comedically small, comedically rich crypto-jew, and therefore proceeded to enlist an platoon of the finest plastic surgeons, dermatologists, tailors, and hairdressers, and has formatted herself into a very attractive stanza, and everyone (except yours truly) has completely forgotten what a horrible little worm she actually is. It's all just style over substance. It always was, but it's even moreso now. The solution is mandatory blindness.
>>24696293Just because something takes on poetic elements doesn’t make it poetry.
>>24696293>the distinction between poetry and song is a fairly modern concept.(I)>Epic poetry and Tragedy, Comedy also and Dithyrambic: poetry, and the music of the flute and of the lyre in most of their forms, are all in their general conception modes of imitation. They differ, however, from one: another in three respects,—the medium, the objects, the manner or mode of imitation, being in each case distinct.>For as there are persons who, by conscious art or mere habit, imitate and represent various objects through the medium of colour and form, or again by the voice; so in the arts above mentioned, taken as a whole, the imitation is produced by rhythm, language, or 'harmony,' either singly or combined.>Thus in the music of the flute and of the lyre, 'harmony' and rhythm alone are employed; also in other arts, such as that of the shepherd's pipe, which are essentially similar to these. In dancing, rhythm alone is used without 'harmony'; for even dancing imitates character, emotion, and action, by rhythmical movement.(VI)>Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play; in the form of action, not of narrative; through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions. By 'language embellished,' I mean language into which rhythm, 'harmony,' and song enter. By 'the several kinds in separate parts,' I mean, that some parts are rendered through the medium of verse alone, others again with the aid of song.>Now as tragic imitation implies persons acting, it necessarily follows, in the first place, that Spectacular equipment will be a part of Tragedy. Next, Song and Diction, for these are the medium of imitation. By 'Diction' I mean the mere metrical arrangement of the words: as for 'Song,' it is a term whose sense every one understands.
