| User | explosions |
| Topic | minimalist poetry. |
| Message | consider poems like william carlos williams’s "the red wheelbarrow" and ezra pound’s "in a station of the metro." do you think they’re brilliant in their simplicity, or merely overrated?
i like them. i think it doesn’t matter how long the message is, just how well it’s articulated. thoughts? |
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| User | joeyalphabet | 2006-08-30 | |
| Subject | untitled |
| Message | The length of a poem isn’t important. Both those examples are wonderful. So is Nash. There’s also haiku. The only important thing is whether a poem evokes a response in the reader. |
| User | explosions | 2006-08-02 | |
| Subject | untitled |
| Message | no, i’ve never heard of him, but the last line of that poem is nice. i guess ogden nash does some (humourous) minimalist poetry too, most notably
Parsley is gharsley. and a focus group? well, what do /you/ think? |
| User | Rokhal | 2006-08-02 | |
| Subject | untitled |
| Message | Goody, I read both of those in poetry class.
To determine if they’re any good, I’d want to focus-group test the poems to people who’ve never heard of them, and see if they attract more interest than anything else. Barring that, I think they lead the reader into tunnel vision, emotionally acting like a crystal ball or ink-blot, without guiding them to feel anything in particular. I just spewed up a bunch of psychobabble. |
| User | Ligeia83 | 2006-08-02 | |
| Subject | untitled |
| Message | I think they are great poems...it’s not easy to say all you want to say in just a few lines...there’s alswo this italin poet, called Salvatore Quasimodo qhich does a similar thing...he wrote this poem called ED è SUBITO SERA(And suddenly it’s evening) which goes
Each one of us is alone on the heart of the earth Pierced by a ray of sun: And suddenly it’s evening. Ever heard of him? Ally |