Nights of Average Nerves: Popular Culture and Me
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https://doi.org/10.31436/asiatic.v6i2.255Abstract
In this article an Australian poet and critic reflects on his own aims and aesthetics, set against a world that uncritically praises pop culture and largely ignores poetry. The article considers the difference between “popular culture†and “pop culture,†and the reasons why poetry has fallen from general view, arguing that it is partly because of the strengths of poetry – which always needs a link to the general community and had it until the advent of Modernism – and partly because of the problems built into contemporary evaluations of poetry. Thus the article shifts between personal values and general issues related to poetry in our time, and advocates a return to a traditional valuing of shared emotions rather than of wilful complexity.
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