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 </div><p></p><figure id="attachment_2258" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2258" style="width: 308px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://wordsrhymesandrhythm.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/why-i-hate-poetry-image-or-interpretation/why-i-hate-poetry/#main" rel="attachment wp-att-2258"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2258" alt="Why I Hate Poetry" src="http://poetry.wrr.ng/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/why-i-hate-poetry.jpg?w=308" width="308" height="300" loading="lazy"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-2258" class="wp-caption-text">www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry <strong>[Why I Hate Poetry]</strong></figcaption></figure>I hate poetry for so many reasons. I’ll give you just two.<br>
First, I must make you understand that I’m very fastidious when it comes to poetry. I’m more patient with badly written prose.
<p>Why? I’ll tell you by providing you with an instant poem.</p>
<p>Call it Captured.</p>
<p>Ready?</p>
<blockquote><p>Go:<br>
Bring my soul home;<br>
Let it go, let it to me come.<br>
If my soul be tied, my body die<br>
And if I die, I die without a sigh….</p></blockquote>
<p>(Poetic!? But, honestly, I don’t even have a clear picture of what I’m saying. I just think soul is subtle, supra-sensible, metaphysical. Whoever hears the word cannot treat it like it’s an object. Or judge it by the same set of rules. Like: bring my bird home).</p>
<p>If I had this posted somewhere, say, on Facebook or elsewhere, where I should get audience, I’d most certainly get comments like: “Wow, what a nice line!”; “…if my soul be tied, then my body die..nice one there!”….blah, blah, blah.</p>
<p>And all these comments won’t be wrong. Let me explain.<br>
There’s something poets haven’t noticed. Poetry, however badly written, always pretends to say something subtle. It keeps asking the reader: “You don’t get it?”</p>
<p>Bring my soul home….That’s symbolism? The reader thinks. So, what’s the touchstone for determining true poetry? The clarity of the painter’s painting (image) or the readers’ starry-eyed interpretation?<br>
That’s the first reason I hate poetry.</p>
<p>The second reason, in part, follows from the first: is there anyone who cannot do what I just did? Anyone who can’t be a poet?</p>
<p>Poetry becomes the occupation of those too afraid of the tedium of real prose:</p>
<p>If my soul be tied, then my body die….</p>
<p>That line is syntactically incorrect, the reader says. The verb die is plural.</p>
<p>Come on, the poet says, it’s Poetic License. Poets and Popes are alike – infallible.</p>
<p>I developed this wariness after reading Chinua Achebe’s Anthill of the Savannah.</p>
<p>If you’ve read that work, you’ll notice points where Sir Chinua got tired, and sought desperate ways of filling space; so he decided to “hooptedoodle” a bit.</p>
<p>He’d make Ikem, one of the main characters, write lengthy poetry every night. Nice technique? Yes. Because it doesn’t have to be coherent.</p>
<p><strong>My take on </strong><a id="js_61" href="https://www.facebook.com/Brainypoet">Kukogho Iruesiri Samson</a>‘s <strong>poem, IM(P)OSSIBLE?</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>Impossible:<br>
Imp<br>
Possible?<br>
Wimp!<br>
..<br>
Failure:<br>
Fail<br>
Lure?<br>
Wail!<br>
..<br>
Achievable:<br>
Achieve<br>
Able?<br>
Receive!<br>
..<br>
Strive<br>
Thrive.</p></blockquote>
<p>I was quite taken with the poem, not because it had a direct message. In fact, it doesn’t have any obvious message. You don’t understand what he’s saying except you enter into his head.<br>
I’ll explain.<br>
Impossible:<br>
Imp<br>
Possible?<br>
Wimp!<br>
That’s stanza one.</p>
<p>Here’s my interpretation. The writer, something of a morphologist, provides a word (impossible), tries to break it into “cranberry morphemes” (imp, possible).</p>
<p>Then he realizes (or is shown by a machine?) that the correct two morphemes for the word (impossible) are im- and possible.</p>
<p>And of these two, only one (possible) is an “unbound” morpheme (i.e., a morpheme that can stand alone as a word). Hence the last word of despair (Wimp!).</p>
<p>Failure:<br>
Fail<br>
Lure?<br>
Wail!</p>
<p>That’s stanza two.</p>
<p>The morphologist tries again with another word (Failure). He breaks it into fail and lure.</p>
<p>Wrong. Failure is a morpheme, not two. Hence the last line (Wail!).</p>
<p>Achievable:<br>
Achieve<br>
Able?<br>
Receive!</p>
<p>The third stanza.</p>
<p>The writer succeeds this time, breaking achievable into two correct unbound morphemes: achieve and able.</p>
<p>Hence the positive exclamation: Receive!</p>
<p>The couplet,<br>
Strive<br>
Thrive</p>
<p>Sort of moralizes over the writer’s efforts: “If you strive, you’ll thrive”.<br>
Aphoristic end.</p>
<p>IM(P)OSSIBLE is not a sonnet (maybe a pseudo sonnet), although it has the structure and rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet – three quatrains and a couplet, rhyming a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, g-g.</p>
<p>Sonnets, aside from their structures, rhyme schemes and number of lines, stick to strict decasyllabic lines written in iambic pentameter.</p>
<p>IM(P)OSSIBLE, however, doesn’t even bother with meter at all. Rather, with morphemes.</p>
<p>It’s not a sonnet. Not a free verse, either. Novelty, maybe. Unique. Kukogho-ian.</p>
<p>Guy, I don tire. Make I run drink water. I’m out.</p>
<p>EDITORS NOTE: Sir <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/prospero.anuforo">Prospero O. Anuforo</a></strong> is a literary enthusiast and a writer, well known on literary platforms on Facebook.</p>
<p>He has a page where he appreciates literature and writers.</p>
 
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