Poetry Is Dead Reflection

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Poetry is died, does anyone really care anymore? Reflection In this article, I learned that poetry was something that most high school-ers dreaded doing in English. This article talked about how poetry changed his life. He mentioned that there are more people writing poetry than the people that are actually appreciating poetry. People say that poetry is going to have a comeback, but we all know that poetry isn’t going to pop up for another 100 years. Bruce, the author of the article, enjoyed reading, writing and appreciating that fine art of poetry. During high school, he was an avid reader who despised rhymed and rhythmic writing. He would plow through tangled symbol and allusion, and wondered why the poets couldn’t just say what they meant in the poems that they wrote. In college at some point in time he got the meanings of the poems that he read. For the next ten years or so, he was hooked. He read poetry, wrote it, and recited verses to impress dates. But later his interests on poetry waned. On the surface, he thought it was because he had other interests that demanded his time and attention such as getting married, having children, pursuing his career, and buying a house. He set his apologies to Frost, and began to find more relevance in articles about interest rates than essays on the sprung rhythm of Hopkins. According to Bruce Wexler, by the ‘90s, poetry was over. This statement may be doubted considering that poetry is the only art form where the number of people creating it is far greater than the number of people appreciating it. To appreciate a good poem, though, it takes knowledge and commitment. As a society, we lack this knowledge and commitment. People don’t possess the patience to read a poem 20 times before the sound and sense of it takes

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