OK dude, seriously? Chill...just chill.
Bernstein seems more preoccupied with bashing Poetry Month itself than if there is any poetry worth presenting. He talks about how most poems that "average people" are capable of understanding, are about nothing. Well, he is welcome to his opinions, even though they are wrong...Just because a poem doesn't have some sort of deep hidden philosophical interpretation of the author's view on life, death and where to have the best picnic lunch, doesn't mean that that particular poem is sentenced to the "mediocre" stack.
Whew...take a breath...OK.
Instead of just lumping poetry together into "good" and "bad" Bernstein should try to see the effects that poetry has on people. "In Flanders Field" is one such example that many people know and understand. "Taps" would definitely be an example, even though it is a song. Music is simply poetry that is put to notes and sound. Poetry is something that people hear and see everyday, even if they don't realize it.
Bernstein should take some time off and try to write his idea of "good poetry". If it takes off like a rocket and is an immediate bestseller that has people climbing over his garden wall to get his autograph...we will talk and renegotiate what good poetry is. Until then...Mr. Bernstein can shove it.
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