01-21-2013, 12:22 PM
personally I would very rarely post against a poem in which I see little or no merit - I would just leave it. I notice that I am better at articulating what I don't like than what I do - so if I don't like much - well you see...
partcularly when what I don't enjoy are stylistic elements that are truly personal - myself, I don't really enjoy rhyming poetry - I can almost never differentiate between it and Pam Ayres! I could spend the whole day saying, it rhymes and I don't get it. But presumably those who do that know they are doing that and do it on purpose.
Actually that is not entirely true - I like the poetry of Betjeman, and that rhymes - remember Myfanwy at Oxford? ahhhh.
Anyway clearly got too much time today - What i think is the hardest thing about crit, is when you know something is really fab and brilliant and all you can say is "I-LOVE-IT"
I guess that is not too helpful for the writer.
partcularly when what I don't enjoy are stylistic elements that are truly personal - myself, I don't really enjoy rhyming poetry - I can almost never differentiate between it and Pam Ayres! I could spend the whole day saying, it rhymes and I don't get it. But presumably those who do that know they are doing that and do it on purpose.
Actually that is not entirely true - I like the poetry of Betjeman, and that rhymes - remember Myfanwy at Oxford? ahhhh.
Anyway clearly got too much time today - What i think is the hardest thing about crit, is when you know something is really fab and brilliant and all you can say is "I-LOVE-IT"
I guess that is not too helpful for the writer.