Is personal poetry bad in your opinion?

answers1: ???!!! of course it´s not bad!! <br>
I find the personal poems much better , than let´s say some rich girl
writing about poverty in africa. <br>
imagine paris hilton writing about some kind of topic like that?? <br>
You know nothing better than yourself, so writing about yurself is
probably one of the easiest things to do. but also one of the hardest
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or what do you mean exactly? I dont think personal poetry is bad at
all. you have to be able to express yourself. let emotions out , u
know? you can only do that with your feelings. and for some people ,
words are the only way they can truely express themselves
answers2: It depends on how it is written. You can write a poem about
something in your life and make it not sound like it's about your
life.
answers3: It depends on how personal it is. A person's poetry
shouldn't be too personal.
answers4: It all depends. A great deal of the time personal poetry
does seem pretentious or egotistic, espeically if the author thinks
they're "something else." But at the same time, not all poetry can be
objective, some must be subjective. Every time we write, a little bit
of our soul goes into the making of our poetry. So, basically, all
poems are personal poems, just in a different light. I cannot agree on
one side or the other, because some personal poems drive me insane and
make me want to scream, and others make me want to stop writing
because of the beautiful talent laced within. I'm straddling the
fence, as it were. <br>
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Pugilist - Loving the word "insipid"
answers5: You have to decide--subjectively--if your poem is a poem or
a bowel movement. Bowel movements are great, needed, satisfying, etc,
but nobody wants to look at them. Poems are flowers, rainbows and
starry skies; dances with death, paintings of hearts. Poems are to be
shared, bowel movements flushed away.
answers6: I cede this one to Pugilist. There is only one criterion for
any art. Is it good or not?
answers7: Personal poetry is not, in itself, bad, but personal poetry
trends badly. <br>
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This is because people get so stuck on how it feels to them it is more
therapy than poetry, which is fine until they present it as poetry and
then get upset when it is held to the same standards. <br>
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Look at the art of Fredia. It's intensely personal but is still great
art. You can present personal pain, strife, happiness, etc and still
adhere to good poetical forms. You just have to be willing to
actually work at it, which is a step most personal poetry refuses to
consider. <br>
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And that's what makes it insipid and horrid.