A Look At BAD Poetry | Is Instapoetry Ruining Our Craft

Описание: Hello friends! Welcome back to the channel! Boy do I have a thought provoker for you this week! We all know that micro poetry, commonly referred to as instapoetry has all but taken over the online literature world now! And there’s been so much talk about it, and critique that it got me thinking, is all this BAD poetry damaging our craft? Let’s take a look!
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BAD poetry is everywhere and right now, at the forefront of discussion when it comes to popular poetry, and poets. Everyone is talking about Gabbie Hanna, Trisha Paytas, Rupi Kaur, Atticus etc, but is instapoetry as BAD as everyone says? Is it ruining our craft?

Timestamps:
00:00​ - Intro
3:00​ - CONS
09:07​ - PROS
​14:47 - Final thoughts

As poets it is important for us to read widely so that we can make informed decisions on various matters within our community and within our own writing. By doing that, you have no doubt found the world of instapoetry or micropoetry, or what most automatically label as BAD poetry. And, though there are reasons for that to be justified a lot of the time, it’s not always the right thing to do putting things into a single basket. Luckily, I’ve around the block a few times, in fact to put it more aptly, I’ve been around multiple blocks, multiple times. Which means I can take an objective look into this world of BAD poetry and reflect on it. But is it damaging our craft, and reputations as a collective? Let’s discuss.

So as I mentioned, I have been around the block with both perspectives on this. For channel veterans you may require I started out his channel defending instapoetry and micropoems, but over the near 2 years of doing this channel I have aged (And don’t I show it) as well as matured in tastes. So am I abandoning instapoetry? Not at all! I still wholeheartedly feel there is a place for micropoetry or “pop” poetry when its done right, but sadly, it is all do often done wrong! Let’s make a pros and cons list of this famous form and then weigh everything up to make an informed final verdict.

Cons:
Reputations within the profession
Lazy culture breeding
Dilution of the craft


Pros
Bringing about a new era for poetry
Introducing a new wave of poets
Making poetry cool / popular again
More lives are being saved

So here’s the big question, is BAD instapoetry ruining our craft? Well, when compiling my list I could only think of 3 cons compared to 4 pros when wanting to make a list of 5 each. So judging by that, and of course from my perspective. No, it is not as a whole ruining our craft. For many, instapoetry serves as an inroad to our wonderful world and people will soon start picking up books from more traditionalists, so for that, we should be grateful. It is opening the up for us and we must stand ready quill, typewriter, laptop or pen and paper at the ready!

Yes, of course there are serious issues that come from the simple statements being branded as profound poetry, but I feel instead of condemning it so ruthlessly as I see many do, we should inspire instead by saying, hey… I don’t like your work because it is lazy, but why not try this instead. And I include myself in that too, I can do better! To finish up and on that note, this is by no means a discouragement of any subscribers who write instapoetry. I’m still backing you all the way! Just, you know, strive to be as impactful, beautiful as you can be, by crafting your poems!

That’s it for this week, let me know what you think in the comments down below… it’s good to hear from all sides of the coin with things like this, not just mine! Please hit that like button if you liked the video, and if you’re new here subscribe for more poetry related videos soon! My name’s Adam Gary, see you next week! Laters.
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