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Why love poetry is terrible.

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, 4th February 2012 at 11:17 AM (140 Views)
The reason many of the poems people read in literacy and english classes concern love is, rather than love being the standard topic of poetry, because it is the hardest topic to write about without being consumed in infantile cliché's and melodrammatic sniffles of despair.

The vast majority of pretentious writers delude themselves into thinking they are somehow more meaningful or 'deeper' than they actually are because they write about love, when in actuallity they couldn't have chosen a path of more depraved meaning.

They recycle an endless list of cliche's, but here are just a few.

-All terrible love poetry is about someone looking back on a failed relationship. Few of the people writing this cliché have had these relationships in actuallity, so they're usually incredibly out of touch. Writing about how awful your life is, when you haven't even experienced a break up. It's pathetic, and essentially just an excuse to shout 'ME ME ME!'

-All terrible love poetry mentions doves. This is because it is the only word illiterate poets can think of which rhymes with 'love'.

-All terrible love poetry rhymes . They usually rhyme in an endless succession of couplets, which ironically fractures the rhythm in most cases because the writers haven't a clue what 'iambic pentameter' could mean. Poetic structures which have structured stanzas are almost never used, and we're normally quite lucky if terrible love poets don't think a 'sonnet' is a book by shakespeare.
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  1. PrinceWhite's Avatar
    you got that from the thread.
  2. Jerevand.'s Avatar
    Yup.
  3. PatssRuel's Avatar
    Lol, you made a whole rant about it? Really?
  4. Rammjet's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by patssruel12
    Lol, you made a whole rant about it? Really?
    It's one of those things which annoys me in life.
  5. PatssRuel's Avatar
    Oh, so like a pet peeve? Ok then, I won't say I haven't given a lecture to anyone about leting their grimy dogs poo in my yard.
  6. Chimpy's Avatar
    "You'll remember me when the west wind moves
    Upon the fields of barley
    You'll forget the sun in his jealous sky
    As we walk in fields of gold"

    ~Sting
  7. JENNiFER's Avatar
    writing poems is just one of the only solid ways to show how love is amazing (maybe amazing is too strong of a word)

    if it was meaningless, people from centuries ago wouldnt write about it
  8. Rammjet's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by JENNiFER
    writing poems is just one of the only solid ways to show how love is amazing (maybe amazing is too strong of a word)

    if it was meaningless, people from centuries ago wouldnt write about it
    I appreciate meaningful literature on the subject, but I think flat footed poems by teenagers who're usually writing about relationships they haven't even had yet are terrible.
  9. JENNiFER's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Rammjet
    I appreciate meaningful literature on the subject, but I think flat footed poems by teenagers who're usually writing about relationships they haven't even had yet are terrible.
    ahhh... i see where you're coming from
  10. Prism's Avatar
    Agreed, Ramm. When people write about love it's all cliche and trashy. I cannot say I know more about love than every poet in the bloody world, but I still think most poets... or people in general, don't portray love in an accurate way at all.

    ... It's rare that I see anybody writing good poetry at all, though. Poetry can be wonderful when done RIGHT, but then.. when does that ever even happen? ;_;
    I'm not going to say never... but not very often, that I'm sure of. Everybody in the world thinks they can be a poet if they write a 5 lined shallow poem in which they write about something that they themselves haven't even experienced.
  11. Rammjet's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Prism
    Agreed, Ramm. When people write about love it's all cliche and trashy. I cannot say I know more about love than every poet in the bloody world, but I still think most poets... or people in general, don't portray love in an accurate way at all.

    ... It's rare that I see anybody writing good poetry at all, though. Poetry can be wonderful when done RIGHT, but then.. when does that ever even happen? ;_;
    I'm not going to say never... but not very often, that I'm sure of. Everybody in the world thinks they can be a poet if they write a 5 lined shallow poem in which they write about something that they themselves haven't even experienced.
    Your comment's spot on.

    I've only ever had one relationship, which lasted 7 months. Did I experience love? No; I pretended to myself that I shared things in common with my partner, and that I wasn't just in a relationship because I was afriad I wouldn't even get a partner.

    If I tried writing about love, I wouldn't produce anything even closely related to it, yet thousands of other people in the same situation as me seem to think they can.
  12. Nikolaj's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Prism
    Agreed, Ramm. When people write about love it's all cliche and trashy. I cannot say I know more about love than every poet in the bloody world, but I still think most poets... or people in general, don't portray love in an accurate way at all.

    ... It's rare that I see anybody writing good poetry at all, though. Poetry can be wonderful when done RIGHT, but then.. when does that ever even happen? ;_;
    I'm not going to say never... but not very often, that I'm sure of. Everybody in the world thinks they can be a poet if they write a 5 lined shallow poem in which they write about something that they themselves haven't even experienced.
    I love you.

    (hah maybe thats a tad bit too ironic - but I full-fledgedly agree with you)
  13. FinalCheetah's Avatar
    Love Poetry is vague, quite the phenomena how people cling onto and sympathise with the words.
  14. [1amayzingman]'s Avatar
    I was thinking the same things about music, actually. It's just that the feeling of love is quite consuming, but it's something almost everyone has experienced, so people think they have some deeper meaning invested in it when really, you don't.

    EDIT: Let me give this a shot

    "I love you like the wind loves the sky
    and the birds love to chirp
    and some other things that go together and then something about a dove because it's symbolic"
    Updated 4th February 2012 at 12:21 PM by [1amayzingman]