Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Poetry@lemmy.world · 3 days agoWhen people say, "we have made it through worse before" - Clint Smithlemmy.blahaj.zoneexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1308arrow-down111
arrow-up1297arrow-down1external-linkWhen people say, "we have made it through worse before" - Clint Smithlemmy.blahaj.zoneCatoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Poetry@lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square21fedilink
minus-squareYingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down2·2 days agoProse can be poetry too. I don’t get why people should always want to criticize poetry, or art, for not being “proper”. Poetry is there to reach inside the heart and to make you feel something. Nothing less, nothing more.
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down8·2 days agoIt sure makes me feel something. I doubt the author wanted me to feel that way lol.
Prose can be poetry too. I don’t get why people should always want to criticize poetry, or art, for not being “proper”. Poetry is there to reach inside the heart and to make you feel something. Nothing less, nothing more.
It sure makes me feel something. I doubt the author wanted me to feel that way lol.