Disgruntled

The rantings of an angry woman.

Modern Trash

Posted by Max Pilote on January 23, 2007

I hate poetry, but that’s probably because I can’t be bothered to stop long enough to interpret it. To me, everything must just sounds like everything else. Poetry these days is just people trying to imitate poets before them, writing about ordinary things in a style of grammar and language they barely understand.

It’s like modern artists. They beat their faces against a canvas until some interesting smear of blood appears, name it something like “Hunger Pains of a Starving Artist” or “A Field of Sunflowers,” and sell it to some wealthy family in New York looking to decorate their expensive apartment with lavish, modern trash.

There are no more great poets, artists, or orators. There hasn’t been a sane person for years who could shape the world with his speech or demand attention with just a single word. Those who possess this ability obtained it from a pact with Satan who always adds a lust for power and socially disfunctional mental disorders in with his deals. They start cults, fear the government is persecuting them for their religion, fight or take to seclusion, and die before their later years.

Maybe we could have that sane orator if we could actually speak English. This butchered form we call our English language is just word vomit. Stinky, nasty, dirty word puke that clogs the toilet at Buffallo Wild Wings.

2 Responses to “Modern Trash”

  1. Indulge me please. Name a poet (of any period) who “could shape the world with his speech or demand attention with just a single word.” And let me know the “word” also.

  2. maxpilote said

    I was speaking of speakers when it came to that point.

    On the subject, I wouldn’t be able to judge anyone’s poetry as having “shaped the world” as I seem biased in that area. I mentioned that I hate poetry. Thus, I would be unable to rightly say if any of it had a hand in the current formation of our society.

    Of course, many poets can be attributed to shaping the literary world (as with Geoffery Chaucer) or an era (i.e. Ralph Waldo Emerson).

    It seems to me that poetry is better suited to appeal to the emotions of a person and temporarily stir feelings inside a being. It’s not meant to make much of a difference as far as global affairs or current events go.

    At least, that is my opinion. If you have a different one, by all means express it.

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