Poets, nowadays, the're going downhill. What is considered to be a beautiful, inspiring art has now become predictable. We all write about the same thing; love, lack of love, depression, etc.. It's all predictable now.1
Take the love poems, for example. It's all the same. "I dream about you at night, you're all I can think about, your voice is so beautiful. Your eyes, your hair, your touch, your kiss, your smile..." ---the list goes on and on. Everything has already been used and so none of it is original anymore! It's sweet and all, don't get me wrong, but when you think about it, everything we write has already been written before. Turn any piece of poetry into one of those plagarism-detecting-sites and it'll come up in neon colors saying "PLAGARISM." Now-I've never actually tried it, but I'm pretty sure if I did, that's what's gonna happen. 2
So, in attempt to get away from those love poems, we turn to ones about depression. Do these themes sound familiar to you? Cutting, helplessness, "I hate you" Blood, sleepless nights, suicice, waste of time/space...? That list goes on pretty far too, but not as long as the love one, nothing goes on that long. 3
And everyone is guilty of it, even I'm guilty of it... actually, I'm pretty sure I'm the biggest hypocrite around. All ideas have already been used up. So what do we do? We try to put our own style into it- we try to make it our own, but we fail. We simply fail. The closest thing that us modern poets have gotten to originality is Dirty Pretty, and even that's overused now. Seriously, it has its own definition in that Urban Dictionary site. 4
Most of us have accepted it, I think. We simply put our own meanings behind it, and wish for the best. We click "Submit" and cross our fingers-- hoping that we no one will come along saying that the poem is too similar to theirs. Well, except for one type of poetry.5
This, my friends, is the nature loving/happiness/Religious poems. They have a category of thier own. And as original as it may be, let's face it, no one likes those poems. A couple of stanzas about the sun's rays and we're already clicking on some other bloke's site, praying that it's anything other than that. (No offense intended, of course, this /is/ a rant)6
So, my point? We love our poems-- but it's all been over done... yes, that does basically mean that I have no point, but that's alright too. 7
That is all, Rant Dismissed8
--Me
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heh, sorry about that.
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You are not even close to the biggest hypocrite, that is my role. =D
Ahaha, I love your view on the Religious poetry. *cough* And I quote "no one likes those poems. A couple of stanzas about the sun's rays and we're already clicking on some other bloke's site"
Love you!!!
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hey! i ranted about love poems sounding too similar in a poem once...remember that? i have a question...can ranting poems be original? i mean, you could rant about something everyone else in the entire world loves or hates and be difrerent about it. like hitler. how many poems have you read supporting hitler? or twilight. how many poems have you read degrading twilight? it's just a question. i agree with your rant for the most part, and i think this rant was actually well written. i can see this as a monologue on stage, you've done a good job with it!
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No offence taken.
I agree with everything you say. And recognize that this is nothing but a rant. And it made me think, good for you.
Is this what we must resort to to be orignial? Randomness and rantabilifying? Our opinions have sadly not escaped unoriginality, despite their trueness.
I find this a little vague, and ungrounded. It's like a classic writer's begginer-sentence - it's better to explain why something is other than saying what it is. I would have taken delight in reading this had it been more deeply thought out.
The lack of proper examples was a little jarring too - agreeing with all this makes my head feel a little smoky.Can you make this worth the 'submit' button?
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