... and so there is faux-art in manufactured pain?
Haiku has to be the most abused form of pseudo-poetry in our culture. A seventeen syllable sentence with carriage returns stuck in does not equal a haiku, as many seem to think. It seems like a handful of those on the page are real haiku (which is not to say that the rest can't be art, just not haiku (although the majority are marginal at best on expression as well)), and I only found one that I would call well-balanced.
A lot of people see haiku as an extremely high-brow art form, and thus find it entertaining to attempt writing them about prosaic subjects. I like irony, too, but bad poetry for irony's sake is still bad.
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Warning: rant
Date: 2003-10-24 11:00 am (UTC)Haiku has to be the most abused form of pseudo-poetry in our culture. A seventeen syllable sentence with carriage returns stuck in does not equal a haiku, as many seem to think. It seems like a handful of those on the page are real haiku (which is not to say that the rest can't be art, just not haiku (although the majority are marginal at best on expression as well)), and I only found one that I would call well-balanced.
A lot of people see haiku as an extremely high-brow art form, and thus find it entertaining to attempt writing them about prosaic subjects. I like irony, too, but bad poetry for irony's sake is still bad.
Here endeth the diatribe.