09-06-2011, 07:41 AM
Thank you for your feedback Bilbo
I'll use your suggestions regarding the first stanza in a mo. Also thanks for the heads up on the spelling mistake. I think I'll also capitalise the first letters of the sentences.
Actually Anne Sexton didn't influence this poem. After I'd written it I read the poem I took the epigraph from and saw how the fragment was about the same thing. I like epigraphs because I think they show all literature and art can be connected, from the oldest Italian sonnet to the scribblings of a mad housewife. But if you feel these introductions encroach on the work I'll certainly think twice about including them.
Thanks again.
I'll use your suggestions regarding the first stanza in a mo. Also thanks for the heads up on the spelling mistake. I think I'll also capitalise the first letters of the sentences.Actually Anne Sexton didn't influence this poem. After I'd written it I read the poem I took the epigraph from and saw how the fragment was about the same thing. I like epigraphs because I think they show all literature and art can be connected, from the oldest Italian sonnet to the scribblings of a mad housewife. But if you feel these introductions encroach on the work I'll certainly think twice about including them.
Thanks again.
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