11-22-2012, 01:56 AM
Deffinatly agree with this one.
I find it incredibly hard to self monitor the quality of my work and I would 100% say that both of the possibliities
you present would be aplicable to my experiances so far. The poems I most feel connected too...or I think I've worked, many clever little extras into are the ones which are flops and the ones I've slungdown in a almost flippant and casual way, are the one that excite others....It would seam that the more work I put into something the more likely it is to be rubbish. I'm beggining to think that I am killing them with over attention. Like a parent that smothers a child and over protects it and that what i need to do is be less precious and more relaxed with my poetry.
I notice a similar principle at work when I am reading the work of others, in that the type of poem that i most readily identify (and get) are often not remotly like the leanings of my own style.
Do you think it is a case of opposites attract?...
I find it incredibly hard to self monitor the quality of my work and I would 100% say that both of the possibliities
you present would be aplicable to my experiances so far. The poems I most feel connected too...or I think I've worked, many clever little extras into are the ones which are flops and the ones I've slungdown in a almost flippant and casual way, are the one that excite others....It would seam that the more work I put into something the more likely it is to be rubbish. I'm beggining to think that I am killing them with over attention. Like a parent that smothers a child and over protects it and that what i need to do is be less precious and more relaxed with my poetry.
I notice a similar principle at work when I am reading the work of others, in that the type of poem that i most readily identify (and get) are often not remotly like the leanings of my own style.
Do you think it is a case of opposites attract?...