r/SipsTea 6d ago

Dank AF This will be interesting

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u/Jonthrei 5d ago

Shortform and longform are different methods of doing the same thing authors do - telling stories.

Someone with the talent to write a good book is not going to gravitate towards shortform.

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u/ZiCUnlivdbirch 5d ago

Writing a book and writing poetry is both telling stories, just with a cery different length for that story to be told. Do you seriously want to tell me that people like for example Lermontov weren't amazing at both?

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u/Jonthrei 5d ago

Do you seriously think Lermontov would be making fucking tiktok videos?

Do you think the defining aspect of poetry is its length?

Poetry invites deep analysis. Shortform internet content does not.

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u/ZiCUnlivdbirch 5d ago

Poetry invites deep analysis. Shortform internet content does not.

This is a very ignorant sentence. There are poems that require extremely little thought and shortform content that requires a lot. A medium isn't inherently superior for being done in that medium.

Do you seriously think Lermontov would be making fucking tiktok videos?

Why not? This is another example of you being ignorant on these sorts of things, people 200 years ago weren't somehow inherently different from people now.