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Michael Pendragon wrote:

> On Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 3:00:15 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>> Michael Pendragon wrote:
>>
>> > On Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at 9:50:14 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>> >> Michael Pendragon wrote:
>> >> > George J. Dance wrote:
>> >
>> >> >> >>> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >>> Always Marry an April Girl, by Ogden Nash
>> >> >> >>> [...]
>> >> >> >>> April golden, April cloudy,
>> >> >> >>> Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy;
>> >> >> >>> [...]
>>
>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/04/always-marry-april-girl-ogden-nash.html
>>
>> >
>> > >> > Nash definitely was the master of his niche in poetry.
>> >
>> > >>> Oh, yeah. As an example:I remember one textbook I picked up in the last
>> > >>> half of the last century. It was very modern in its approach to verse.
>> > >>> First, it ignored rhythm / meter completely. Second, it pontificated
>> > >>> that rhyme was good only for humorous effect;
>> >>
>> >> > What an appallingly horrid little work that must have been.
>> >>
>> >> > And a textbook, yet (implying that it was actually taught in classrooms).
>> >>
>> >> > One need look no farther to understand why poetry has become a dead language and an obsolete art form.
>> >>
>> >> > And, yes -- I would consign that book to be burned along with
>> >> Your burn list includes some of the best poets:
>> >>
>> >> Allen Ginsberg
>> >> Charles Bukowski
>> >> Jack Kerouac
>>
>> > I don't see any poets on that list
>> Thus, your ignorance of certain forms of poetry is confirmed.

> I'm familiar with all of their writings

You've read, what, one paragraph of Jack Kerouac?

That's not very familiar.