He makes a very valid point, except that I don't see very many haiku on the Internet. Either he's making a mountain out of a molehill, or I've been lucky.
Somewhere inbetween, I think - IME it's not so much that the internet is completely infested with bad haiku, rather that once one person (on a newsgroup or whatever) tries one, everyone else piles in.
I've long lamented the way rhyme and meter have largely fallen into disuse in modern poetry, not because free verse is inherently inferior to the sonnet or other forms of rhymed, metered poetry—it isn't—but because it's convinced a lot of extremely untalented people that they can write poetry too. After all, how hard can it be to write 20 short lines that don't even have to rhyme?
Definitely agree with that bit [except perhaps the `it isn't' bit <g>]
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Date: 2003-08-10 03:51 pm (UTC)He makes a very valid point, except that I don't see very many haiku on the Internet. Either he's making a mountain out of a molehill, or I've been lucky.
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Date: 2003-08-11 01:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-08-11 03:25 am (UTC)Definitely agree with that bit [except perhaps the `it isn't' bit <g>]