/lit/ - Literature

>>22129421
I'm not writing to modern audiences, I'm writing to the judge, a professional poet, the top of her field (allegedly) with multiple awards, who would have an eye for artistic merit. As for
>an unenjoyable slog
If you feel no joy looking up and learning a new word, in puns and double entendre, then you have been intellectually and emotionally neutered. I have nothing to say to literary eunuchs.

If the only thing that mattered was "speaking to a modern audience", then slam poetry would be the greatest gift of all. Would you say this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDa5G0czkTY
is the highest form of poetry man has to offer? Is that up your alley? Does that hit the spot, swine?