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>The Age of Shakespeare
>The Age of Milton
>The Age of Dryden
>The Age of Pope
>The Age of Wordsworth
>The Age of Tennyson
>The Age of Eliot
What's next for English poetry?

>> No.9440526
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>>9440522
You already know the answer.

>> No.9440656

Age of King.

>> No.9440668

>>9440522
Poetry's dead.

>> No.9440673

>>9440522
Age of Ride.

(MC Ride)

>> No.9440680

>>9440522
The Age of John Green

>> No.9440695

>>9440526
When I was doing my laundry a week ago I noticed that someone else had left this book on one of the tables. It was an odd moment, seeing something IRL that I had only ever known because it was heavily memed on /lit/.

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>>9440522
U™ already™ know™ the™.answer ™

>> No.9440729

Steve Roggenbuck

>> No.9440879

>>9440522
My diary, desu

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>>9440522
Hardly anybody reads poetry anymore because they are not taught in school to analyse a poem's techniques.
They are taught to find the 'messages' and 'themes' of a poem instead of contemplating the stylistic choices and aesthetic appearances, which is what poetry is really about--memorable word choice and phrasing. Everything else is secondary.

Even people on this board complain that poetry does nothing for them. I would argue it is because they read poems like prose--they expect a poem to unfold itself to them naturally as their eyes scan over the words, how prose works.
This is not the case for poetry.

A poem requires multiple readings, rereadings, and study, no matter its length.

Poetry is not for this age, where instant gratification, which prose often delivers, is required, otherwise the reader loses interest and concentration quickly.

It is a great shame, as the benefits of poetry are boundless.

>> No.9441067

>>9440879
go die

>> No.9441354

English poetry is dead.

>> No.9441391

>>9440695
The day I saw it on here someone returned it to the library where I work