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Now that the dust has settled, is the love poem dead? Anonymous 02/03/26(Tue)01:57:54 No.25063694 [Reply]▶
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It seems to have started as a genre with Sappho, to have developed with the Latin poets, to have disappeared with the Fall of Rome and the rise of Christianity until being re-introduced to Europe with The Ring of the Dove, to made into a sophisticated art form on the continent with Dante and Petrarch, to have reached its English apogee with John Donne, and to have found its last great proponent in Neruda. I don't think we have any culture left to write love poetry, at least none that is great. Love is now a matter for prose.
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>Now that the dust has settled,
what dust?
>I don't think we have any culture left to write love poetry
Well, this is the consequence of judging any emerging culture by what came before it. Most poets in the periods you mentioned had to defend against the notion that their time was uniquely prosaic. The present always feels more prosaic than the past
the problem may thoughever have more to do with love than with poetry, as it's hard to obsessively worship and make brilliant art about a particular woman when you can see thousands of better looking thots naked for free
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>Most poets in the periods you mentioned had to defend against the notion that their time was uniquely prosaic
As in suited to prose?
I don't think any of them did
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I don't know if worship is required, that's the sort of thing Don Quixote makes fun of
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Anon, you may be disappointed to hear, but ALL poetry is dead, just as ALL culture is dead and no previous artistic form of cultural renaissance is still flourishing in use. The world is fucking over and we just have to suffer through the next few hundred years.
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