I recently read a piece in The New Yorker (see here: If Walt Whitman Vlogged), which of course had embedded links and so lead me down this rabbit hole that I otherwise would never have gone down if not for my compulsive clicking.
I am curious, I suppose, to see someone raising the same old questions, but with Twitter and YouTube. How do you define poetry, for example? Who is a poet? Does poetry have the capacity to change the world or people, and should we expect it to (cue Auden)? The actual pieces cited (like here ) that I have seen so far are half-annoying, half-beautiful manic rants, and I'm torn between an eye-roll and an admiration for exploring, creating, pushing boundaries. I am just learning and exploring this stuff, and I'm curious to hear your reactions--love? hate?--and your analyses.
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