Should teenagers be taught how to write poetry?
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Re: Should teenagers be taught how to write poetry?
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I agree that you can't teach poetry. But I don't even think there are rules you can teach. If you read a few poems you get to see the form they usually have and. get a feeling for it. But the very nature of art is that you can express anything in it naturally and without restrictions.Madcap Syzygii wrote: ↑18 Dec 2013, 03:22 I believe you can teach the rules of poetry to anybody, but as for teaching how to write poetry, that is impossible. Poetry is an art, and you can't teach a person how to paint, or to draw, you can merely help them to become better!
Art is not a form or a concept. It is formless and many great artists have expressed that they feel like their art is coming through them and they are merely a vehicle to express it (I can confirm this feeling by my own experience). This can only happen if you don't lose touch with yourself and in that case with language (or whichever tool you use to fulfil your art). That is nothing that can be taught in school.
I think that we try to make too many things too intellectual these days... you can't understand everything with the mind, in fact I think the mind is greatly overused.
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Well said. I think the exact same thing. Poetry is something that flows from the heart. Although skill is required, it is not something that is the same all across the board. Poetry is defined and is perceived differently by everyone.FNAWrite wrote: ↑04 Dec 2013, 12:01 Should students be taught how to sculpt or paint so they can produce masterpieces of graphic art?
As far as i know, there are more people who write poetry than there are who actually read and enjoy poetry. We have plenty of people writing poetry.
IMO it is not something that can be taught - that is to say the craft of poetry can be taught, but not the art.
How like summer, love.
After sweltering passion
autumn must arrive.
I could be taught that 5-7-5 was a format.
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I completely agree with you, as long as you know what you're feeling and have the right words and a moving rhythm, you've got a good poetry.
More than anything, I believe, poetry is a feeling which has moved you and holds the power to move an audience and that could be just one person.
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