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Originally Posted by Namekuseijin
right. metric and patterns help memorization
though poetry isn't about metric and rhymes
when I said poetry being from "the gut", I meant only the (largest) subgenre of lyrical poetry
hey, finally some nice discussion here about poetry. better than more lame series  |
The old rhymes did help to preserve knowledge in past generations though. i.e. 30 days hath September... and so forth. In fact the old minstrels would sing the news as they went through an area (I understand) as it was easier to remember things accurately that way. That and things like murals and stained glass windows were the education of the common man back before books were easy to mass produce thanks to Gutenberg's printing press. That's when the narrative poem began it's decline I think. Who needs someone to sing the old poems when you could pick up a book (or newspaper) and read the text yourself? Though I bet some of the early print poublishers probably thought some of the books they were printing were rubbish back then too.