Modern Poetry
As a fan of modern poetry, I would like to publicly express my outrage at the comments made by Peter Bloxsam in ‘Poets Cornered.’ (The Australian Magazine, 9 June 2001). I believe that poetry, like most other things is simply moving with the times, constantly adapting to the modern audience. Poetry should present the reader with a message, and do so in a visual, almost magical way. 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
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Approximate Word count = 684
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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