Views that poetry should have rhyme, rhythm and a perfect structure, are the views that Shakespeare had. Poets have changed. Audiences have changed. People have changed. The audiences of old were the upper-class English snobbery, living in a time when people weren't required to think for themselves, but allowed the leaders of the day- Kings, Lords and Popes, to run their lives. They were unable to interpret thought and thus their poetry had to be easy to follow, with an unmistakable meaning. Abstract and subtle was simply not

The final proof that today's audience requires a more visual, transcendent genre is in the work of William Blake. Blake is, by all counts, an old style poet. He wrote in the 17-1800's, his poems rhyme, they have rhythm and they have perfect structure. What they also have, however, is the same style of abstract, interpretive meaning that is found in the modern style. William Blake was a man before his time, shunned by all but a few of his contemporaries, and ridiculed as a confused eccentric. Two centuries later, his views are regarded as prophetic, and he as a master visionary. Blake sensed this need for a way to bring poetry away from the snobbery, and into the imagination, and now, many years later, a new genre of literature has emerged. Modern poetry is finally here, and here to stay.

"Shall I compere thee to a Summers day?

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