Talk:Political poetry

There is a ton of poetry that could be listed, but is not, namely several other Whitman poems and the work of Percy Shelley. ---D--- (talk) 22:20, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Scope

The scope of the article seems very narrow, focussed on the last two or three centuries. There was political poetry, for example, relating to the English Civil War and the issues surrounding it (see "Poetry and Revolution", ed. Peter Davidson). In the 13th century, there was Walther von der Vogelweide who wrote criticising leaders, both secular and religious. The Aeneid, too, is surely political poetry, albeit of a more subtle type; and some of Horace's odes, too, are political, for example.

To suggest political poetry started in the 18th century is just not tenable. --Pfold (talk) 09:21, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

Pfold is definitely right. Many of the poems of Alcaeus, Anacreon, and Archilochus, written in the seventh century BC, certainly qualify as "political poetry." The notion that political poetry only began in the 1700s is just downright ignorant. It shows that whoever originally wrote this article plainly had no knowledge of poetry dating before that point. Also, the article seems to disastrously imply that political poetry is an American invention by having a lengthy section entitled "American," which deals solely with political poetry in the United States, followed by another section entitled "International developments," which discusses political poetry in every other country. This looks to me like nothing but a disturbing example of American historical revisionism, portraying the rest of the world as though it did not exist until the United States came along. The focus of this article certainly needs to be broadened. --Katolophyromai (talk) 14:49, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

Poems/poets A-Z

Does this list, which seems to be mainly American, add anything to the article? Maybe a few could examples be fully discussed in the body of this article? Rwood128 (talk) 17:59, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

Macwilliam and not Brecht or Neruda?

I have never heard of Macwilliam before and yet his name dominates the A-Z list, while Brecht and Neruda aren't even mentioned once in the article. I find that bizarre since they're some of the most influencial political poets of the 20th century. Neruda's El Hombre Invisible and Brecht's essay, five difficulties in writing the truth, are mandatory reading in my opinion. Xenomorph erotica (talk) 13:27, 11 January 2024 (UTC)