History
Slam poetry is one of the most vital and energetic movements in poetry during the 1990s. Slam has revitalized interest in poetry in performance. Poetry began as part of an oral tradition, and movements like the Beats and the poets of Negritude were devoted to the spoken and performed aspects of their poems. This interest was reborn through the rise of poetry slams across America. While many poets in academia found fault with the movement, slam was well received among young poets and poets of diverse backgrounds as a democratizing force. This generation of spoken word poetry is often highly politicized, drawing upon racial, economic, and gender injustices as well as current events for subject manner.
Gregory Corso- I Am 25With a love a madness for Shelley
Chatterton Rimbaud and the needy-yap of my youth has gone from ear to ear: I HATE OLD POETMEN! Especially old poetmen who retract who consult other old poetmen who speak their youth in whispers, saying:--I did those then but that was then that was then-- O I would quiet old men say to them:--I am your friend what you once were, thru me you'll be again-- Then at night in the confidence of their homes rip out their apology-tongues and steal their poems. |
Poem AnalysisThe narrator is speaking of the hatred a youth has for wise old men. The old men only want to help the youth in his time of love and compassion for a woman. Instead of seeing that, the youth feels the wise old men aren't being helpful and are trying to bad mouth the youth's love. The youth doesn't see the old men giving him wisdom, so he has other wanted plans for them.
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