/lit/ - Literature

>>20068395
i wasn't going to mention science, but since you did it's partially to blame. poetry tries to touch on human experience and such, fields like sociology and psychology are butting into that and explaining it away. Sylvia Plath's poem about the fig tree slaps but some fucko is going to pipe in and say "ah yes, the phenomenon of paralysis of choice" whereas they wouldn't be doing that earlier

But that's only minor. Another reason is there's more cynicism because of advertising. Watch a television ad about a chocolate bar or somesuch and notice the language they use. It's basically poetry. "wrap yourself in a warm, luscious embrace of a Dove Eternal Chocolate square and let your womanly passions turn inward" idk im not a poet but the idea is people hear poems using that kind of language and their first inclination is "what's this Tennyson fella trying to sell me?"

I can think of other reasons but I gotta go to work OP ill be back

If somebody is timid and angsty to the point where it negatively impacts their life, it's literally called anxiety. The experience of overwhelming negative emotion is something that can be overcome with an assistance of a professional, the distinction of it being an illness or not is meaningless. Why do it alone? You are not your own master, you can't just tell yourself to change, it will work out the same as NYE resolutions, sorry.

If you pretend like it's not an issue, it will only exacerbate the problem for you. Using something as an excuse is detrimental, but ignoring something can be even more deadly. You are not as strong as perfect as you think you are, and you will never be until the moment you are brave enough to acknowledge your weaknesses as real disease.

>>10718743
>not a single non-anglo
>not a single non-highschool-curriculum
>paglia

>>7550945

Stephen King has been a best-selling author since Carrie, I don't think anyone was going to try to interfere with the formula.

Also, if the notes at the beginning of his books are anything to go by, I think his wife is his chief editor. She must be desensitized to her husbands weird fetishes or have some pretty weird fetishes herself.

>>6498781
So this is phrased like a fucking freshman vis arts major wrote it, but the concept is there.

Anon, what you want to say is that in order to succeed in the art world, you'll need to be able to network and secure patronage much more than you'll need to actually be a decent artist. The first renders you the second, relative to the market. Then you can do whatever you want and call it art because you'll have the proper platform.

But, just so we're clear, this has never not been the case in the art world, ever. Ever. If you think that Art as a business, or a game of patronage, is a new concept, you're a fucking idiot and should read a goddamn book. Nobody gets where they are by being good. They get there by knowing the right people, and then (sometimes) being good.