>mfw people on here read novel after novel and have read probably

ye

yee

>>9587922
Poetry is stupid and I don't respect it.

>>9588074
pleb

>>9588074

the only purpose of poetry is to provide titles for novels

>>9588074
nice meme
>>9587922
i read almost all of stevens for my senior program

>>9588074
Pretty much this. Sorry I guess

Poetry can be good and respectable but sometimes I've seen people treat it as kind of a lazier alternative to writing prose.

I had a professor whose poetry to me seemed like a lot of words that were hard to follow and it had a lot of little keyboard symbols in it. Like a lot of {} and [ " [] just in different places. One poem was almost entirely those symbols. I was also in a writing program once where a bunch of the people there freaked out when asked to write in prose saying that it's too hard or ridiculous.

>>9587922
Is there a study that shows a correlation between having good reading comprehension and reading poetry or are you just baiting?

>>9589540
you read prose as you read any text except poetry, taking in information

poetry works differently, is that more often than not you dont retain much of the poem on an initial readthrough like you would read prose

>>9588074
That's right, I just have sex with it