Cub4ucme
Really Experienced
- Joined
- Aug 19, 2006
- Posts
- 287
Tzara said:Then what is your definition of what makes one a "legitimate poet?" Apparently you feel no one here is, and you don't rate your own work. How does one get to be a "legitimate poet?"
Does your statement that rating is "up to the individual and is completely subjective" apply to other poets too? If so, how can there be any "legimate poets," unless you mean this purely as a term describing your own sensibilities?
Again, just curious.
I never state there is NO legitmate poets on this site. I read the poetry here often and a small percentage of it I would consider legitimate. Beyond that I would say a larger percentage has some credability and potential or I wouldn't keep returning here to read the poems.
Whether I write with any sense of poetic integrity is not for me to judge.
In regards to subjectivety when someone is judging the credability of poetry I think the big issue is whether they have any background in the art themselves to begin with. Then there are those that sell "Hallmark Card" poetry and do quite well and who am I to say that on a broad basis it isn't legitimate?
I can't!
I can say that from my seat I don't consider it legitimate but, I would protect the right of the artist if their work was being whored regardless of whether or not I thought the poetry had any integrity or not.
andy