11-10-2013, 08:20 AM
In that case anything that has words could be considered a poem. So why even bother with the discussion? Many poems are written for performance, some aren't. Who cares? I don't think a rapper is a poet, unless he's both. I consider eminem to be one of the most poetic rappers of the day, because of his use of puns, metaphors, and language and wordplay that do not rely on vernacular, but I happen to know that he has no interest in poetry, or being "called" a poet. So we have oral poems, music poems, written poems, whatever. We can regard whatever we want to as poetry, but a rapper is a rapper. He may or may not be the writer. He is more comparable to those you speak of who are doing the reciting, he is a character, a public persona, an orator, and actor, a performer, and he gets paid quite well for it.
Obama's high flying rhetoric has often been regarded as poetic, who's the poet? Him or his writers and editors?
Obama's high flying rhetoric has often been regarded as poetic, who's the poet? Him or his writers and editors?
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No, Hip hop was founded on creating and preserving a language/vernacular for a people who felt they didn't have a voice. It short, it started as poetry.
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