Is 'Slam Poetry' of any intellectual or literary merit?
>>8290297
No.
Poetry doesn't. What makes you think slam poetry would?
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>>8290297
Writing insultsing poetry was rather common among Russian poets in XIX century, at least. Some of these are still well-known.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNgqpkZMjiw
*snap* *snap* *snap*
>>8290297
No, slam poets are just rappers with no friends.
>>8290350
No rhymes or beats either.
>>8290362
Oh, all the stuff I've heard rhymed. You mean some of it is just people shouting? Wow.
>>8290342
This about sums it up.
>>8290342
Even the inherently cancer normalfag YouTube comments section agree it's shit, that's saying something
>>8290304
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>>8290476
>show me a 60 year old chinese man doing slam poetry
hue
>>8290297
I don't think so, no. It's too uniform, too predictable, absolutely not thought provoking, and lacks aesthetic value.
It's not much different from standing on a soapbox and ranting, except soapbox ranting can at least surprise you in its content.
>>8290476
>matt desu
I wonder where he got that name?
Poetry is supposed to be the language of the soul or something. I think the soul is supposed to be a humble whimperer, so when I see a 14 year old boy loudly bitching about transgender rights and white privelage I can't help but feel a little put off. So basically fuck slam poetry.
There should be something called whimper poetry where you awkwardly stand at a mic in a black lit room and read your journal/diary aloud while a soft electronic melody plays in the background.
>>8290297
Nope. It's boring as fuck. Trite political sound bites yelled into cheap microphones in the same fucking self-righteous "I took high-school theater" stage voice by dull-as-dirt hipsters who think poetry is a platform for bitching about whatever petty thing annoys them most as if it were some kind of sociocultural revelation. They don't even have the decency to put any kind of meter to it so it would at least be structurally interesting. It's the kind of thing you're forced to endure while waiting for the band to start playing at your local dive bar.
>Social and political Cliches mashed together with no rhyme or metre
What could good about that?
