/lit/ - Literature

>>10916584
>What does it say about readers or writers of modern poetry that pic related or The Tiger seem like such standout accomplishments?
Why do you have to project your brainletism onto everybody else? Jesus Christ

>>10916584
That's not quite on the level of The Tiger tbqhwyfam

>>10916584
>The creation of beautiful things requires intent/planning/training
OP, I...

t. someone who has never read any contemporary poetry

>>10916584
this and the tiger one are better than most modern poetry because they end them well. so many today get off to a good start then fizzle out half way through, coming lamely at the end

>>10916623
but writing poetry isn't just the creation of a beautiful thing

>>10916584
kids writing is on a whole different level, they have that creative ingenuity that dissapears in most adults. its an entirely different world lense that we can never go back to

>>10916707

Have you tried psilocybin mushrooms?

>>10916707
a source in the pre-rational

>>10916707
it isn't present in most kids either

>>10916650
I have. For better or worse, I read most of the Poetry that's available on the New Yorker website, I've come in contact with Instagram poetry as well. Hated almost all of it. One Ocean Vuong poem was the exception.

This and The Tiger aren't like that.

>>10916594
?

>>10916752
it's present in all of them, if we don't see it it's because a lot of children as they get a bit older start to put on their parents' 'mask' if you know what i mean

>>10916607
Why not? It's equally simple and elegant, maybe less primal but still very raw.

>>10916763

>One Ocean Vuong poem

Could you post it?

>>10916811
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/04/someday-ill-love-ocean-vuong

>>10916584
>modern poetry

>>10916771
No, it isn't. Some people have a predisposition for genius, most do not. Kids lack inhibition and shame so they express themselves freely for a while, most of what they produce is garbage though. Because most of them are garbage.

>>10916823
genius has nothing to do with talent

>>10916817
is ocean his real name?

>>10916860
what

>>10916925
well i'm not sure i understand what you mean. you don't disagree that all children are creative and have inventive thought (which genius generally implies), but you still think 'what they produce is garbage', and talent means the intelligent exploitation of discoveries made by genius

>>10916817
I have no idea what you liked about that poem and I had no idea what it was talking about.

I agree with you that those two kids poems are both really good though.