How Politically Correct Art Is Leading To The Age Of Didacticism

We used to have best-selling poets, mind you. But as Mark Naida points out in The Federalist, for the past 50 years, poetry “has been largely confined to university English departments.” Yet Kaur has managed to become famous by posting her work on Instagram, accompanied by simple hand-drawn illustrations. The only problem? They’re not really poetry.

Although her book may lead readers to read real poetry for the first time since high school, she is not really making poetry herself. She uses neither images, nor poetic devices, nor characters. She presents vacuous statements that invite readers to insert themselves. Her writing is meant to be so relatable that it becomes meaningless.