Thursday, January 02, 2025

 

ESSAY - WHAT DOES POETRY "HAVE" TO BE?

BY DONOVAN BALDWIN

John Keats
To my mind, just as a collection of paints, pens
or crayons, clay or stone or wood, can be used to create a thing of beauty, a thing of ugliness, a glorious praise, or a damning indictment, poetry can assume any guise at the will and whim of its creator. Like the public, the poet who views poetry as one or the other will usually have difficulty accepting, perhaps even seeing, the views of another "artist".

The religious painter frowns at the frivolous cartoon or risque nude. The "imitation of life and reality" artist, snorts at Picassoesque visions and representations.

Yet, over the ages, both, all, emerge as reputable representations of art... schools, periods, in the art, and/or the artist.

So too, poetry.

The poet, limerick writer, advertising jingler, political ranter, or romantic swooning swain (or swainette), become recognized by somebodies somewhere as a professional practitioner of his or her art.

So, gird your poetic loins, pick your weapons, your words, and, as they said in the 60's... "right on", or, in this case, "WRITE ON!!!"

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