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Can somebody honestly, without being a pretentious cuck about it, explain the objective value of poetry? I've done a research and I still don't get it, at all. The value of prose is easy to see, for it concerns itself with narrative structures, precise, cerebral ideas, and setting the scene. Sure, some poetry does it too, but 99% of it is about feels, abstract ideas, short, meaningless tidbits, or whatever it's author had for breakfast that morning. I've read the analysis of the most celebrated poems and the arguments for its value boil down to
>look at that beautifully constructed rhythm/meter/alliteration/something equally asinine, isn't it amazing! The way the author breaks the line here and not there blows my mind!
>wanking over metaphors/similes/metonyms/critics own brain aneurysm, all the things done much better in a strong prose
So this is it? I'm just supposed to appreciate a poetic stanza for being written kinda neatly? There isn't much to it, no memorable, deep characters, no heartbreaking stories, or metaphysical implications, just a bunch of words about nothing in particular, sewn together in a somewhat cool fashion. The apotheosis of this shit is so called 'pattern poetry', in which you're meant to enjoy a SHAPE of a poem. Fucking hell.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against words being strung in a neat way if that rubs your fancy, but isn't it kind of childish, and unnecessary?