Blog Post #1

http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/25/living/poetry-dead-poet-laureate-herrera-feat/index.html


The link I have attached broadly encumbers my topic, pertaining to poetry. I wanted to include a brief introduction to modern poetry and bring up the initial idea of if it is even relevant in todays society, compared to its vastness in history. However, the link I provided does not bring up the exact topic I want to discuss. I am a bit of a poetry nerd myself, so this is a source of passion, but in my opinion, and even the opinions of non-poetry fanatics, poetry is still very relevant today (and I can support that with the amount of photos posted on social media of pages from modern, popular poetry books from thousands of people). But the question I pose, is "What exactly is poetry today?" The term poetry, in my opinion, has morphed into an idea that any simple, fragmental, incomplete thought over "a boy" or "heartbreak" is the next best thing. And since society doesn't know what historically good poetry is, they eat it up. For example, popular poets today such as R.H. Sin and R.M. Drake are wildly popular- but if you take their entire volume of poetry, there are probably less words total than this blog post. There is no substance in todays poetry. I know this just may be the next transition in poetry, as there inevitably always is, but I just don't like it, to put it simply.