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Article: Poetry Now.(Poem)
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- Quadrant
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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POETRY NOW
Poetry is tremendously popular now.
That may be an astounding fact to many
people, particularly as poetry in our
culture has a negative image. After all,
for many years we were subjected to the
indignity of having to memorise long
narrative poems for school recitals. The
very word "Shakespeare" could suggest
boredom and having to virtually
translate his poetry into modern, plain
English. Poets are often depicted as
being effete, out of touch with reality,
concerned with images of roses and
swans, using an artificial language. But
all this has changed (Writing and
Publishing Poetry by Stephen Wade)
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