Why is Slam Poetry literally the same shit every day

like how the fuck did poetry get from Paradise Lost and the Divine Comedy to this shit

File: Garrrgoyle.png (484KB, 763x588px) Image search: [Google]

484KB, 763x588px

>>9139117
You just described /lit/

>>9139145
It kind of got tiring after the eight thousandth time. Make something better. I dare ya.

Why is it called "slam"?

>>9139491
Face-to-desk motions of literate audiences

>>9139117
The medium is purpose-built to tell stories about how strong the narrator is, and it's popular in ideologically homogeneous circles. This gives us many authors with similar ideologies telling stories with similar content. Same goes for other niche genres heavily associated with ideologies. Westerns and Space Operas both tend towards certain arcs, archetypes, and messages. It's just a function of who the authors are, and what sorts of plots the genre can support.

in its current form slam is a vehicle for any minority group to express outrage at the ruling caste. slam "poets" always need to identify in one of these two ways--pro-minority, anti-establishment. outrage also only comes out when you're shouting. the slam scene has thus devolved into a bunch of middle-class non-whites shouting barely-coherent platitudes about oppression. it's so tiring and obviously bad art because it's limited to one theme and one diction. auden says you must ignore bad art. that's what i've resolved myself to. slam is a trend, it will die soon regardless

Slam poetry is a bunch of entitled black millennials bitching about how "oppressed" they were growing up in the suburbs in the 90s. Lately, Muslims have tacked onto it and started bitching about how everyone else is oppressing them and how it has nothing to do with their shitty religion.