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or amanda gorman? im desperate help

Amanda is the poet from Bidens inauguration

Rupi is the popular indian poet who wrote milk and honey

>>19543092
What will socialist art look like? Bourgeois art is there to keep the status quo (pic related). From Trotsky:
>WHEN one speaks of revolutionary art, two kinds of artistic phenomena are meant: the works whose themes reflect the Revolution, and the works which are not connected with the Revolution in theme, but are thoroughly imbued with it, and are Colored by the new consciousness arising out of the Revolution. These are phenomena which quite evidently belong, or could belong, in entirely different planes. Alexey Tolstoi, in his The Road to Calvary, describes the period of the War and the Revolution. He belongs to the peaceful Yasnaya Polyana school, only his scale is infinitely smaller and his point of view narrower. And when he applies it to events of the greatest magnitude, it serves only as a cruel reminder that Yasnaya Polyana has been and is no more. But when the young poet, Tikhonov, without writing about the Revolution, writes about a little grocery store (he seems to be shy about writing of the Revolution), he perceives and reproduces its inertia and immobility with such fresh and passionate power as only a poet created by the dynamics of a new epoch can do. Thus if works about the Revolution and works of revolutionary art are not one and the same thing, they still have a point in common. The artists that are created by the Revolution cannot but want to speak of the Revolution. And, on the other hand, the art which will be filled with a great desire to speak of the Revolution, will inevitably reject the Yasnaya Polyana point of view, whether it be the point of view of the Count or of the peasant.

>>19130776
>I would like to know why anons dislike her work so I guess I don’t make those mistakes.
You don’t like Kaur’s style, and I agree that it’s bad, but if you’re going to market your work as being profound or interesting, you need to say something that is profound or interesting. One of Kaur’s themes is love. Pic related is one of her poems on it. It’s visually aesthetic, and would look nice framed on a desk I suppose but when you actual read it, you have to ask wtf she’s even talking about. It’s vague and cryptic, which makes stupid people (read: women under the age of 35) think it’s profound because they don’t understand it. There’s nothing to understand. She’s literally just saying “I want to be in a healthy relationship” next to a doodle. Doesn’t everyone? What’s the insight? When people read your poem they should go, “wow, I never knew anyone else felt that way” or “huh, I never realized that but now that I think about it it’s so true” For contrast, here is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on love:

>Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished

What he’s saying is that spending your life with someone will not be like what you imagined when you first fell in love with them. That marriage is reality and it has its tough spots and problems that you just don’t think about when you’re young and imagining it. Goethe wrote that two hundred years ago and it still resonates with people who read it. Kaur will be forgotten in the next five years even by the people who love to make fun of her. As for Savannah Brown, she makes most of the same mistakes, but has a better understanding of the technical aspects of writing, probably because she went to school for it. Neither of them use rhyme scheme or meter in their “poetry” though, which is what makes it hard to say it is actual poetry. There are no constraints, literally any jumble of words you can slap together has as much merit as a poem as anything those two write. This is not hyperbole: if it doesn’t have to rhyme and it doesn’t have to fit any sort of syllabic constraints, it is not different from a standard sentence and so it is not in a technical sense a poem.

Please give me a list or flowchart of poets to read. I literally know shuttle about poetry and I want to dive headfirst into it all. Western or non-western.

I have never read this woman but I know she baits people into replying to threads so like a coomer pic I am hoping it makes you respond.

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>>14707372
Based

>>14210875
It was earnest and they tried. Are you honestly going to say it was worse than this? I write poems worse than that

In Shakespeare time elitists scruffed him off as vulgar and unrefined, now he is considered the greatest writer of all time.

In 100 years Rupi Kuar will be remembered similarly as one of the leading poets of the century fusing the gap between technology, post modernism, minimalism and art