Is Poetry a Dead Art?
I walked into a couple of bookstores to find something to read and yet I find so little attraction to poetry and public performances may be a key to revive the desire of the public.
I was walking through a couple of bookstores the other day; I was browsing the shelves for something to satisfy my mind. I found the number of poetry books on the shelves to be alarmingly low considering the size of the city that I was visiting. This brings me to my question Is poetry a dead art?
This question has different possible answers and I know that poetry is not a dead art? I haven’t seen as much money pushed behind poets as I do for novelists. Why is this? I believe there isn’t much of a trend going on for poetry right now. I think there could be a wakening for the public, maybe a festival for poets for about a week long. I don’t have all the answers but I think if the public could get behind the strong passion that poets place within their work. It would increase the visual aspect and desire for it.
If we go online to do a web search for poets, we would get a nice little bundle of links. Poetry is more rampant and persistent on the internet than in the real world at this time. The delivery method is fast and is available twenty four hours a day. What is the attraction here? The different method to make poetry available is growing. It ranges from audio, video, text, through art or a combination of all. So is poetry dead, not a long shot.
Poets have adapted to the internet and showcase their work through various methods such as personal web pages, through private web pages, bulletins and other formats. All of these techniques are nice to use but it doesn’t replace the public performances of written work. To allow some error, there is some places where poetry is more rampant than not. I was in Dayton, Ohio and poetry has a small but noticeable nook there.
I don’t think poetry in the end is a dead art. I think there needs to be a revival for it; a little more time in public performances is a key issue. I think using the internet is a good way to advertise but it shouldn’t be the only means of placing one’s own work out there for the public to view. A vivid blend of artwork to display for the world to see, would be a very attractive item and raise awareness that poets will not go silently into the night.
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art never dies
poets do
and then only their works come alive
poets die poor and publishers
in their mrmory become
RICH THEREAFTER
THIA IS A FACT OF LIFE
I think that not as many people grow up with poetry in their lives as they once did. From an early age we learn to read from books and eventually move onto novels.
Whereas poetry is more of a condensed story, fitting a novel into 10 pages rather than 400. The structure is foreign to most younger people, who will generally come across poetry (and have to read it seriously) in school, when they HAVE to study it. Not exactly a positive start to poetry is it?
Caroline