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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Poetry... is (one of) the least useful art forms ever invented.
IMHO, of course.
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Considering the eons of verse compared to the centuries of prose, I suspect otherwise.
At the very least the older styles of poetry are easier to memorize and recite then straight prose.
Now I'd much rather read a modspell edition of Shakespeare or Chaucer than a randomly selected bit of modern literary poetry but I feel that way about modern literary works in prose as well. I happen to like a bit of catering to vulgar(common) tastes.