Do poems have to be about something important in order to be important poems?
I mean, no, I know they don't (red wheelbarrow? come on). And I've read (and written) so many poems that desperately want to be important, but fall on their faces from trying too hard.
But what makes a poem an "important poem"? What?
Discuss.
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I had a cup of coffee and came back to read my comment and realized that, as usual, I completely misread your original post and strayed clean on over into another county.
I swear.
I'm such a tard sometimes.
Hmph. Your original response made sense to me, O Radishy One, but then I haven't had coffee yet either, or else maybe we live in the same county today.
*SNORK*
I laughed so hard while about reading the S. scale, I thought I was going to SHATNER myself.
When I was at a friend's house once many years ago, he played a record album (i.e. an L.P.) of the actor Sebastian Cabot (renowned, if that's the word, in the U.S. for playing the butler "Mr. French" on the insipid "comedy" show Family Affair back in the 60's or so) reading the song lyrics of Bob Dylan. "The words of the poet," the jacket copy proclaimed, "read by the actor."
(Symptoms may include shivering, nervous indigestion, random memory loss, bone collapse, spontaneous human explosion, total unexplained paralysis and dry mouth. Consult your doctor.)
I think an interesting way to decide if a poem is important is whether someone puts a copy of it on their refrigerator door.
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