01-12-2020, 11:18 AM
(01-12-2020, 07:38 AM)busker Wrote: Hopkins mentions the difference between inspired and Parnassian (competent but not inspired). I find a lot of contemporary poetry to be Parnassian. Everyone just sits around making "wow" observations, finding the perfect word for the perfect line, but ultimately drawing the most lifelike sketch of a duffel bag. At least, that's how I feel on reading it, and wanted to see if others felt the same way.And here is my problem with virtually all the poems I write: I am never inspired. I've not found anything to inspire. Nothing breathes life into my writing.
I don't think I've ever been inspired, at least, in a way that's opposite of being expired. Perhaps it is simply my apathy. Or perhaps too much is known by too many, that finding anything truly inspiring is actually quite difficult.
If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
"Or, if a poet writes a poem, then immediately commits suicide (as any decent poet should)..." -- Erthona
"Or, if a poet writes a poem, then immediately commits suicide (as any decent poet should)..." -- Erthona