Bad and good poetry

 

I'm not so sure that we are right on distinguishing between good and bad poetry.

I prefer to talk of bad and good readers.

I mean that if someone reads a Dante's or a Keat's sonnet and she/he does not like it, there we have a bad reader, not certainly a bad poet.

May be we would talk of poetry and not poetry.

There is a long not interrupted line that ties poetry41, from the first known poets (king Salomon, Ben sirac, Homerus and the ancient greek-roman poets, till nowdays; and that's a line of love, universal brotherhood, friendship, deep sentiments but good sentiments.

We cannot call poetry writing on denying  Naziskin  Holocaust or on racism hate and human distruction!

That's just not poetry at all.

Otherwise, who is going to select good and bad poetry'

Good and bad art? 

Do we remember great painter Van Gogh?

At his time he was not certainly considered to be a good artist but who dares today to say he's not?

Does poetry belong to evil and all the other stuff don't?

So, better no to talk of good and bad poetry.