David McGimpsey thinks so:
My anecdotal psychological insight into this is that Facebook and social media has made younger people generally better poets than they used to be, and the reason why is that now it becomes a thing that people just know how to do without being told how to do it: How to materialize the self. The function that poets often engage in to where your speaking self as a poet is a kind of materialization of an aspect of your personality. It’s not you, but a version of you. And good version of you. One where you’re more articulate, more on point, one where you’re more perceptive. Your Facebook is like that. It’s a materialization of who you are.
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Poetry is the materialization of the self? A projection of a better you? So a poem is just another kind of Selfie? Silly me, I always thought it had more to do with truth-telling.
Your sarcasm, if I may call it such, is specious in the extreme, if not worrisome. McGimpsey is very clearly gesturing to the lyrical practice of constructing a "self-in-writing." And his remarks seem to me (perhaps this is where we diverge) _a reader of poetry_ , pellucid and astute. Silly you indeed.
There is no specification for using social media networking sites… these platforms can be used for almost everything either its all about poetry or any other field.
yeah shut it, b. glen
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