Thread 215240059

Poetry is superior to film. This is an undeniable fact and you are free to cope as you want. Where is the Milton, Yeats, Pindar, Aeschylus, Shakespeare, Dante, Browning of film? In terms of aesthetical sensitivity and creative pliability, poetry is effortlessly superior to film, because its medium is language itself, and a universal embodiment of the feelings inherent to a language. Almost all cultures have poetry. Meanwhile film is only a series of photographs of reality stacked together. In poetry one has a vision of life, as great and deep as culture itself, echoing throughout the centuries, and an implicit moral standard of conduct for ones own thoughts and actions. But in film one only has entertainment.

>A race may civilize itself BY LANGUAGE, not film. Cat People is filth.
- Ezra Pound's 1942 review of Cat People

>It is only by Art, and especially by Poetry, that the imagination is regulated. Nothing is more frightful than imagination without taste.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections

Poetry is bullshit.
>I walked very far, and then I saw a car
See? Anyone can do it.

Then why isn't there s poetry board? Checkmate atheists.

>>215240059 (OP)
What was the last piece of poetry that had any kind of global impact? Can you even think of one? I cant

>>215240093
You failed to keep in metre. Embarrassing.

seriously though, I never understood why poetry gets so much cred over prose

>>215240153
When was the last film?

Aristotle's Poetics claimed that Drama was superior to Comedy, Satyr Play being a separate category entirely, while Spectacle was technically impressive but meaningless.

Then George Lucas combined all of these qualities into a three-film masterpiece, achieving the impossible. Aristotle = BTFO.

>>215240059 (OP)
Thats Q.

>>215240059 (OP)
Film is visual poetry doofus
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qbZZ4ecaEns&list=RDqbZZ4ecaEns&start_radio=1&pp=ygUQZHJpdmUgb2ggbXkgbG92ZaAHAdIHCQn8CQGHKiGM7w%3D%3D

>>215240153
Yes.

The wise poet melissa arnette elliott once posed the question to the general public.
"Is it worth it?
Let me work it
I put my thang down, flip it and reverse it
Ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gnaht ym tup i
Ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gnaht ym tup i"

Wiser words may never have been said of such deep thoughts.
They come to me in times of need.

My favorite poet? Tupac Shakur

>>215240155
its freeform but you would not know since you are a phillistine

you can have it both ways, OP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmciuKsBOi0

>>215240059 (OP)
fucking poetry writing faggot

>>215240447
Close, but no cigar

>>215240059 (OP)
Rabbie Burns was right about pure poetry sucking ass and needing musical accompaniment. Same way poetry storytelling is shit and needs a stage presence.

>>215240334
When Truffaut described the director as poet, he was thinking of Murnau and Mizoguchi, not Nicholas Winding Refn, KEK. Most of the time, when someone says a film is 'visual poetry', the phrase is so cliched and vague that they really have no idea what they're talking about.

>>215240093
That’s not even in iambic pentameter you tard

>>215240484
It's called free verse...

>>215240059 (OP)
What a stupid bait thread. Here's your (You) anyway OP.

>>215240153
Probably a poem by Ted Hughes or Seamus Heaney or someone of their generation. Sure, there have been more recent movies with 'global impact', but the difference is that those movies will be forgotten in 50 years but the poetry of Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney will not be. That is what defines high culture, its significance allows it to outlast the frivolity of plebs.

>>215240527
this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX0h1KSM5fs

Hey touch my butt
It's as firm as an autumns chestnut
Won't you touch my butt?
Shapely and round
One of the best asses that can be found!
Of sweetheart, thou lips ever so tart and sweet
Won't you grab some of my booty meat?

POETRY

I went outside, to smoke a joint, and a blue bird fell from a tree.
I looked it over, it was dead, could it be from me?
I'm no biologist, and I was stoned, but I could still believe,
That this bird had choked to death, on my smoking weed.

I am trying to get into poetry
>Mais, o mon cœur, entends le chant des matelots !

>>215240623
Anon, it's YOU, the reader, that are meant to provide the musical accompaniment and dramatic presence.

>>215240153
Dulce et Decorum Est

>>215241556
But Eliot's Waste Land was written after that.

>>215241636
Only people who care about poetry even know the name of the poem, let alone have been influenced by it

>>215240059 (OP)
architecture is superior to poetry

>>215241797
That doesn't stop it from having a global impact.

>>215240734
no its not
t. freeform enjoyer

I GOT SOME FUCKIN POETRY FOR YA
>shits violently

toes curled, gripping
from me a log dear, now parts
neptune's mulatto

>>215241913
Entire nations and civilisations are built around poets, can you say the same for architects?

>>215240059 (OP)
Poetry is the tik tok of literature.

>>215240059 (OP)
Goethe lived ina time before film though. we can't really imiagine his agony, because film is so important now

>>215245388
Where you live right now was designed by na architect. They design civilization. You dumb nigger.

>>215240059 (OP)
Poetry created rap. It lead the pathway to niggers to rape it to death with all the rap we are getting now. Fuck poetry.

>>215245388
compare the greatest architectural achievements to the greatest poetic. not even close. your gay poetry is an antiquated hobby for bored aristocrats

>>215245461
I don't think you know what a civilisation is. Western Civilisation didn't start with Mies van der Rohe. And it wont end with it either. Because architectural styles are relatively ephemeral, meanwhile Homer is there from the beginning, before all notable Greek architecture, and he is still here with us, and likewise Dante, Shakespeare, etc. will outlast all modern forms of architecture.