9/30

I still can't really get a grasp on how I feel about the Dada stuff. It seems to me that a lot of us are having a hard time grasping at what these artists were really trying to "get at" with the actual poems. I mean, it's one thing to read these articles flat-out telling us "this is what Dada stood for," but it's another thing to read those works and try to make the connection between the two, and I get the impression that a lot of us are going "Yeah, this stuff is so avant-garde!" without really getting how. Or maybe that's just me, I'll admit that could definitely be a possibility.

So, what I'm saying is, I'm still kind of at the place I was for my last post. So far, it's been hard for me to be objective about the concept of Dada in poetry because when I read a piece of creative writing, I look at that piece for what it is, not what it's supposed to be. Thus, some of these pieces I read, I get strong images, I think it's good, etc. -- some of them, I try and my eyes just glaze over, and I feel that the author was just a whiny baby that thought they were being edgy by writing anything and calling it poetry.