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12383077 No.12383077 [Reply] [Original]

What is poetry?

>> No.12383091

poetry my ass

>> No.12383171

>>12383077
Pleasing
Oral
Enunciations
That
Read
You

>> No.12383195

It's when instead of writing stuff like this
You start,
Writing it like
that
And pretend
it all means some
thing in the end
You might even try
And make it all rhyme

>> No.12384640

>>12383077
take a paragraph of text. break it up into lines of roughly the same length. poetry.

>> No.12384845

A miserable pile of sylables

>> No.12384849

>>12383195
2/10

>> No.12384867

>>12383195
The difference between doing poetry and shitposting:

Start by writing it
like that.
Pretend it all
leads to an end.
And you might try
to make it rhyme.

>> No.12384872

Words, voice, vision

>> No.12384877

>>12383171
Pleasing oral
communications
that you read
at metro stations.

>> No.12384963

>>12384867
Which one was the poetry and which one was the shitpost

>> No.12384993

>>12384963
Which one was poetry
and which one was shit?
Both were still better
than your mom last week.

>> No.12385012

>>12383077
whatever a bunch of snooty navel gazers and bored academics say it is. "poetry" is like "art" or "brave: - we broadened the definition to the extent that it is no longer useful as a signifier.

>> No.12385439

>>12383077
source?

>> No.12385443

>>12383077
What isn't poetry?

>> No.12385863
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12385863

>> No.12385902

Prose intending to and successfully maximizing a density of meaning.

Hyper-language exploiting all possibilities of idiom, mythos and rhetoric towards a maximally compacted presentation of otherwise ineffable ideas.

>> No.12385993

>>12385902
This is exactly what I was too lazy to type.

>> No.12386981

DICHTEN=CONDENSARE