The doubting Thomas wades through his confusion
In today's poetry recommendations of Ashesh9's A Poet's pen... I wrote: “I disagree with his first line but still find it appealing.” This issue of impartiality is a problem because it calls into question whether Kipling's poetry is good poetry with bad ideology or bad poetry because of bad ideology.
Then one has to look at much of English poetry from the eighteenth and nineteenth century which reflects the evolution and growth of the British nation state and this growth becoming so heavily dependent on pillaging of the world beyond Europe. Ashesh9's poem demands impartiality and initially I disagreed. Then I wrote this poem as explaining my change of mind:
Impassioned and Impartial
stand together to
rule out those Kiplings
for poems that served greed,
the ads of empire rampant
Can a poetic advertisement be considered true poetry? That my noble souls is the question.
In today's poetry recommendations of Ashesh9's A Poet's pen... I wrote: “I disagree with his first line but still find it appealing.” This issue of impartiality is a problem because it calls into question whether Kipling's poetry is good poetry with bad ideology or bad poetry because of bad ideology.
Then one has to look at much of English poetry from the eighteenth and nineteenth century which reflects the evolution and growth of the British nation state and this growth becoming so heavily dependent on pillaging of the world beyond Europe. Ashesh9's poem demands impartiality and initially I disagreed. Then I wrote this poem as explaining my change of mind:
Impassioned and Impartial
stand together to
rule out those Kiplings
for poems that served greed,
the ads of empire rampant
Can a poetic advertisement be considered true poetry? That my noble souls is the question.
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