06-27-2016, 02:26 PM
Quote: Also, I was wondering about the issue of topics being common. If it's true that the everyday doesn't make for good poetry then there goes 99.9% of my material. To me, common topics would be best to write about because it would attract the widest base of readership. Perhaps my life is more boring than most?
It's the treatment, not the topic, that needs to be slightly uncommon. Not vastly, just a bit.
take, for instance, one of my favourite poems on this forum: http://www.pigpenpoetry.com/thread-18087...+blessings
what's so great about the topic? nothing much.
but look at that line: 'and the tree rises above us' and its various shades of meaning. the very essence of poetry.
~ I think I just quoted myself - Achebe