Poetry Lecture

This last class was a Tuesday lecture which focused on understanding what makes a form of art good or bad. This spurned a confused reaction in me as I see art as being completely objective to the viewer, what some love, others will hate. We began by splitting up into our project groups and looking at different forms of cyber-poetry then finding an example that we liked and an example that we disliked. As our group went through many different examples, we were able to identify different characteristics that we either appreciated or disliked. A large portion of cyber-poetry that we found were either poetry generators (http://thinkzone.wlonk.com/PoemGen/PoemGen.htm or http://www.poemofquotes.com/tools/poetry-generator.php) or hyper-poetry (http://community.middlebury.edu/~harris/Hyper-Poetry/fireflies.html or https://www.msu.edu/~corcora5/hyper/Storm/storm.html). We had no trouble at all finding poetry that we didn't like, and honestly were unable to find any that we did like. Sure, if we deeply analyze some we can find some characteristics that are interesting, but the poetry itself is still completely unenjoyable.