What else can I say but that my opinions are the exact opposite?


The consensus of the masses or of the so called experts doesn't concern me at all, because these things will change. What is considered cutting edge and mature now will be forgotten in twenty, thirty, fifty years. A new trend will emerge. It doesn't matter. Trends have no lasting value. The only thing with lasting value is a personal view of beauty, which lasts only as long as the person holding it. I doubt I'll ever consider Poe's poems ugly (although he is not my favorite poet; I would rank Frost, Tennyson, Yeats, and Eliot above him for starters). I doubt I'll ever have more than a passing fancy for internal/half rhyme, but that's more susceptible to change.

I consider the entire modern art movement ugly, though. It's like a child that never grew out of adolescence; any chance to rebel is viewed as high art. Someone throws shit (literally) on a canvass and it's put in a museum. The greatest visual artists of our age are not in museums at all. They're on Magic cards and Fantasy novel covers and inside of children's books. The greatest authors of our age aren't writing for adults, adults want nothing to do with anything quality anymore. The best authors alive are writing for children. The most talented poets and musicians simply aren't supported by anyone. Modern art is style over substance, the promotion of an image and an attitude and nothing of beauty; fuck, these are the people that put a painting of a can of soup in a museum. Talk about Toucan Sam while beating two sticks together, and you'll get a bunch of magazine covers and a Nobel prize as long as a big name likes your haircut.

*disclaimer; this is my opinion. This should be obvious, but I'll state it anyway.