In contrast to Ms. Angelou's poem, here's an excerpt from Kipling's "If--", which was voted the nation's favorite poem in a 1995 BBC poll:pic.twitter.com/6wVs3LN8f5
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In contrast to Ms. Angelou's poem, here's an excerpt from Kipling's "If--", which was voted the nation's favorite poem in a 1995 BBC poll:pic.twitter.com/6wVs3LN8f5
I always found Angelou's stilted meter to be oppressive.
Maya Angelou - a feminist social justice icon who pimped out other women. I think she's written like 9 memoirs, each more contrived, dreary and overwrought than the last (At least Rigoberta Menchu had the good sense to stop after one).pic.twitter.com/AYktMQMPfn
I had a poet girlfriend who invited me to a poetry reading by Quincy Troupe in NYC in the early '90s, and I will say that as far as black modern poets, or modern poets in general, go, he was far more engaging and entertaining. He almost became Poet Laureate of CA, but for résumé.
Uhm, honestly I got a bit upset here.
Finger painting that doggerel would be fitting.
Nay, would be redundant.
I guess this sort of thing is why Enoch Powell was wary of American influence over Britain.
All because of a stupid tax on tea.
We cannot live with people who reject our people’s history and heroes as oppressive.
They replace inspiring, corrective self reliance with the TNB of outsized unearned boasting.
Haha never realized how ratchet Maya Angelou was
Not an American firster? No pride in an American poem replacing a British one?
Wait, the American thing was poetry? Lol.........
Maya the pimp's doggerel is oppressively awful.
Maya Angelou upsets me. Reminds me of Joan Baez's line about Dylan: "My poetry was lousy, you said."
The Cultural revolution all over again. They are not as fully and comfortably in power as Mao was but they did almost everything he did and no one complained.
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