Poetry sucks. This is what i have come to after being in my modern lit class for the past couple days. First any poem we read in hte class is quickly ruined by over analysing it for like a hour. Then i have learned that with enough stupidity and belief for some idea you can make any poem about some personal belief. Such as a kid in the class that thinks ever single poem we have read is somehow really about the industrial revolution or modernisation of our society. Also people don't really look at a poem with its own words and search for the meaning of the author they have their own beleifs and just fit them onto the poem. I guess it is fine to interperate poetry as what it means to you in your relevant beleifs and such. I just dont want to hear 20 college kids talking about how some poem clearly meant this or that. I think that the poet is dead and therefor you dont know and we should leave it alone. Whatever grrr to annoying dumb kids that took a poem stating that the character gets nervous while trying to talk to women. This turned into things about dying and GOD that seems to make a appearance in every single poem. Just becuase no doubt will there be a least one person that thinks some item reffers to god.
I hate poetry.
Kick the dog in the head.
poems are so shitty.
I wish i were dead.
A kid in my class at some point or another would declare that the dog was a refrence to god because dog spelled backwards is god. That i must be angry with god so i said that i would like to kick god. I am angry with my creator, poetry is creative so i am actually not angry with poetry at all but i am extremely upset with my creation by god. This interpretation would surely occur after about 2 minutes of class discussion and someone would consider themselves extremely deep for it.
So i had to pick a poem to talk about for 20 minutes... I am considering saying that interpretations are made worthless by idiots that will draw insane conclusions about simple things. Then i will spend the rest of the time giving like 5 different interpretations that are all well thought out and well argued but all entirely contradictory... The only problem i see with this is that no doubt my teach will dislike me and i will get a bad grade. So instead i will make up worthless dribble and spout it out for an easy A and take a bow as I amaze the simpletons around me. God do i hate poetry.
A quote to show the stupidity:
"the essential gaudiness of poetry."
Wallace Stevens (some noted poet)
Yes yes today i know i am talking all high and mighty.
