Interpretation...is it valid critique?

[Leanne]

Sometimes I read one of these poems on here and I can't help doing an eyeroll of 'oh gawd, really' and then I'll read the critique by the people who know stuff and think, oh, I got that wrong then.

I wish more people shared my personal taste.

Don't assume the people who got there before you are right -- if you don't like something, you're perfectly entitled to say so, as long as you also say why. "I don't like this because what the fuck is a ha'penny knickerbocker" is fair enough. Sometimes a poet needs to be pulled up and have someone say that they're drifting dangerously toward obscurity and they've lost touch with their audience.

Although the easiest thing to do is to just assume that all of the other critics are full of it and not read them before you write your own comment . Another point of view, unbiased by previous comments, is a valuable thing.

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Then again, you could ignore me completely. I'm just irritated that I got here too late and the fat kid has eaten all the pie.