07-09-2016, 01:08 AM
I mean doing better in another poem, a poem under different circumstances, having nothing to do with the failed one. Rather that than botch it then keep trying to fix it. A novelist comes out with a book that gets panned and that's that. He doesn't keep releasing a different version until more people like it. You learn from the critique of others, but I think you should have work to stand for the times before you learned these new things. Your newer work is better than your older work but your older poems are still poems.