Poetry Blog

When I hear the word poetry the first thing that pops into my head is rhyming. I think this idea comes from multiple experiences with poetry and things I perceive to be poetry. For example, Shakespeare sonnets are one of the main things I think of when I think about poetry. The abab rhyme scheme is now the main thing I think of when I think about poetry. This rhyme scheme is the popular idea of poetry. When you ask most people to make a poem they will probably try to rhyme some words that usually make no sense. Another popular idea of poetry is haikus. These are also very popular mostly because everyone had to write a haiku sometime in their education. I think this leads to the next question about what us the state of poetry in contemporary culture. I think poetry is going is evolving at the moment in to more current day ideas. The main example of this is slam poetry. Walt Whitman would probably not walk on stage and dish out a mean slam, but today these events are becoming more an more frequent.  In this day and age I will most likely be able to find poetry on the internet. The internet has done wonders for poetry because it is now so readily accessible to the public.  Sights like poetry 180 introduce multiple kinds of poems and this would not be possible without the internet. In conclusion I think that poetry is still in mainstream culture, but just not in the way it was 100 years ago.