Bardic Poem

Whitman is a supposed classic American poet. In reality most of his poems are not nearly as good as people pretend they are and he does not even use proper form and stuff for his poems. Everyone makes a big deal out of his writing when in reality most of his poems are not that deep. There is so much confusion about Whitman's poems because he had a few really good deep poems so naturally everyone assumes the idea that every single one of his poems is deep and has meaning when in reality some times there is not a deeper meaning about things. He just wanted to write a poem on it. Not everything can or should be related to God or Self or anything like that. When people start looking to much into things most of the meaning they come up with is different and that is what confuses them. If they look at the poem as a poem first and a hidden subterfuge of literation second they would be a lot better off. For example if I were to say roses are violets are blue i am dumb so are you. If Walt Whitman were to write the same poem then the roses and violets would represent the earth and all of its colors. The I am dumb part represents the world population and their stupidity. Finally the and so are you part represents our views on everyone and how we think they are dumb when in reality so are we. Then people would argue about how the poem also represents God and Whitman and his self. I have always thought that people often over react to poetry and I think it is dumb. No one just reads the poems to enjoy them they want to just analyze them even when some times there is nothing for the critics to analyze. Walt whitman was a good poet but I am turned off his work by the critics