10-06-2015, 09:53 PM
I think it's the perception that poets have of their poems and it doesn't seem to be related to talent in any way. Some poets treat their poems as if they are babies that they have created and therefore in their eyes they are perfect so any attempt to say "hey but if your middle child had a slightly smaller nose" gets taken personally as if it were a child. Thankfully those type of poets don't last long on this site because we don't massage their ego. The poets that stay here are the ones that know this is all about developing yourself as a poet and therefore critique is not equated with insult.
When I first joined there was someone's poem that I spent a lot of effort critiquing and the poet replied something like "Listen mate I've lived 20 years to be able to write this poem, I'm not going to change it after all that" My effort was not wasted though because I became slightly better at critiquing and therefore a slightly better poet. It would have been ideal if the person who wrote the poem had benefited also but they were too 'snobby' and so took their shit poem somewhere else where people would love it and give it the admiration that the poet thought it deserved. They never posted here again. Critique drives poets unwilling to learn away and attracts poets who want to be better towards it, it's foolproof.
Mark
When I first joined there was someone's poem that I spent a lot of effort critiquing and the poet replied something like "Listen mate I've lived 20 years to be able to write this poem, I'm not going to change it after all that" My effort was not wasted though because I became slightly better at critiquing and therefore a slightly better poet. It would have been ideal if the person who wrote the poem had benefited also but they were too 'snobby' and so took their shit poem somewhere else where people would love it and give it the admiration that the poet thought it deserved. They never posted here again. Critique drives poets unwilling to learn away and attracts poets who want to be better towards it, it's foolproof.
Mark
wae aye man ye radgie