06-27-2016, 06:35 AM
justlikeyou wrote:
It's certainly allowed but it's only one step in a critique, the question in trying to learn to write better poetry is how did the poet do that? After the experience comes the thinking: what techniques were used, is it the sound of the words or the pace at which they were delivered that evoked my response? Was it a metaphor that opened my eyes or that line break that somehow spoke to me?
It's fine to express how a poem makes you feel, it's trying to understand the why of it that makes the thread a learning experience for OP, the critic and the rest of us.
Quote:Many times I've read a work here and all I have is my personal reaction, i.e. how it made me feel or what it provoked within, and that isn't allowed it seems.
It's certainly allowed but it's only one step in a critique, the question in trying to learn to write better poetry is how did the poet do that? After the experience comes the thinking: what techniques were used, is it the sound of the words or the pace at which they were delivered that evoked my response? Was it a metaphor that opened my eyes or that line break that somehow spoke to me?
It's fine to express how a poem makes you feel, it's trying to understand the why of it that makes the thread a learning experience for OP, the critic and the rest of us.
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