Question:
do you think my poetry is any good? or should i stop trying... please & thank you (:?
1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
do you think my poetry is any good? or should i stop trying... please & thank you (:?
Six answers:
2016-04-15 09:35:52 UTC
When someone asks ridiculous questions and wastes 3 minutes of your time that you'll never get back, sometimes i wish that the Great Vomit Bag Shortage never happened. For now, I'll just use a trash bag.
2010-02-17 22:58:42 UTC
The heart is in it. Now work on language skills. And keep writing, you have potential.
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2010-02-17 20:00:02 UTC
Ok IF ONLY

This poem was very stong had very strong quality but I need to know if you meant to repeat some of the things in the poem or was it just a empty space that you needed to fill. Otherwise very good imagery terms but try to make it to where we can see the picture more clearly like I am drowning and no one is here to save me. So paint a better picture. Overall I think that the moral of the poem was great. Good job.



CATCH HER



Ok catch her did have meaning to it I think that you could have also painted a better picture and made the meaning more understandable but overall I thought it was a pretty well thought out poem.



UNTITLED



The song was ok. It did have a lot of meaning to it and I actually saw the moral to the story that you were bringing out in the song. I feared that the only mistake u were making is not focusing on one thing and you were scattering to a lot of other things insteasd of focusing on one or even two things instead of multiple things which makes it really confusing.



So yea overall I think that you should keep working at your poetry because I think you actually have the potential to be a poet.
Ice Leaper
2010-02-17 19:47:46 UTC
I think you are very good. My only constructive criticism is your song. You haven't written it in the form of a song. You have no specific verses, no specific chorus. It seems more like another poem to me. It's very good, and well thought out. Do not ever give up something you find enjoyment in, and are passionate about. And, I can tell from your work that poetry is both things to you.
annie42
2010-02-17 19:36:39 UTC
I think you are good! I get lots of emotions and images from your poetry.
Patrick R
2010-02-17 21:33:11 UTC
I think it would be better to stop writing for now and just concentrate on reading poetry. Like every other young poet or person who aspires to be one, read Rainer Maria Rilke's short book *Letters to a Young Poet*. Let it sink in. Read it again. Write about it. If you'd like, take a small writing pad with you everywhere and try to think in the way Rilke suggests.



Take a look at some of these poets, poems, and/or songwriters. Try to indulge in all of the ones who appeal to you, but also try to pick one who doesn't and think about and feel through why you don't like him/her (or, perhaps, that work of him/her that you've found to look at or hear):



Elizabeth Barrett Browning, *Sonnets from the Portuguese*

Edna St. Vincent Millay, *Poems*

Patti Smith (singer/songwriter)

P. J. Harvey (singer/songwriter, female)

Hole (band, with Courtney Love as lead singer/songwriter)

Marina Tsvetaeva, *Poems* (at least anything about relationships)

Edith Piaf (singer, sometimes songwriter, but in French; you can read translations as you listen)

Allen Ginsberg, *Howl* and "America"

The Modern Lovers (band) and Jonathan Richman (lead singer/songwriter of the band; he went solo)

Margaret Atwood, *Poems*



(Although you might be tempted to read Rilke, he's quite a bit more difficult overall than anyone else I've listed. My recommendation would be to avoid *The Duino Elegies* and *Sonnets to Orpheus*. Instead, try some of his earlier poems, which are mostly all short.)



Again, you might want to write about your experiences as you read, whatever it is you read, even if it's for school and you don't especially like it.



You'll need to be MUCH more careful about your spelling, grammar, etc. Your main problem is spelling. If you're a bad speller, you might want to use the Firefox browser instead of what you're using now, since it checks your spelling as you type and offers suggestions when you right-click on the misspelled word(s). (Now that I think of it, Safari might do this as well, but Firefox still has distinct advantages, such as the "resurrecting" ability of the Lazarus add-on and the ability to remember all the tabs and windows you have open if your computer crashes.)



If you don't check for spelling and grammar and punctuation before you show your poetry to someone, then you can't expect the reader to have any respect for it. After all, it's obvious that you don't really respect it OR your reader.



Your writing for now doesn't hold up as poetry. If given the right music, it would serve as the most basic sort of lyric about problems with love. There are, though, plenty of songs about love that approach their topic in a much more original way, but this is often because the writer has had more experience and greater emotional and intellectual maturity.



So that's what you need: maturity. Become an apprentice. This is what all poets (and songwriters) have had to do.


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