08-05-2011, 05:38 AM
Simply: No. Critique is filtered by the human critic. After a writer has gotten to a certain level of control they stop making basic mistakes, and their work achieves a certain polish it starts coming down to a matter.of personal taste. Not everyone is your reader but just because they're not doesn't mean you're bad, just as people liking your work doesn't mean you're good.
The true problem with critique is when people begin to like each other and they filter themselves because of the social connections they've made. So, IMO critique is never truly objective and we must stay diligent to care about the poetry more than the poet if our critiques are to mean anything.
The true problem with critique is when people begin to like each other and they filter themselves because of the social connections they've made. So, IMO critique is never truly objective and we must stay diligent to care about the poetry more than the poet if our critiques are to mean anything.
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson