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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Classmate Response 1, Week 2

This is in response to Daniel's free entry which can be found here.

First and foremost, I love your poetry. Or writing. It suits my own personal style and so I really enjoy devouring it. I don’t have much to add in the way of suggesting improvements for the words or piece itself because I found myself enthralled by it. What I will say is that I think you need to work on developing a structure to your posted content. You need to control how the reader sees the words on the page - control the tempo, the flow, the lines, everything. It would be much more dramatic if it wasn’t so hard to read. This is how I would start…do you think it makes a difference?
“I’m trying to curb my reluctant enthusiasm to write because my words are never felt
Only heard for the diction that they aspire to be.
They say to be a poet is an ailment, in tune with nature’s voice.
So does that mean I’m sick?
Sick with withering ambitions
Because of vowels that don’t listen
To the consonants
And it becomes complicated, a clashing cacophony
When it should be blossoms that bloom blissfully…
Something like euphony.”

This is how I interpret your writing, and I hope you see the difference and added impact the structure lends to the piece. That’s what I’m trying to show anyway. I’d love to see you work out the structure and repost. Beautiful piece, thank you for sharing it

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