 Matthew James Current 2008-03-15 . chapter 1Amusing, very. I interpreted it to be you're mocking poems or at least certain kinds of poets. "How do you kill a poem?" The best way being the last, I feel. Just overuse something until it breaks all together ans stops working. People do indeed forget that there's other ways of writing out there because they are "refusing to leave [their] amber shell[s]." Good work here.
I wish that you had flushed out the second and third stanzas thought. I would have liked to see the allegory more fully flushed-out and developed. The first and last stanzas develop your tone and points well, but the second and third stanzas just seem a bit vestigial and could use some clarification in regards to their purpose and what they illustrate.
Of course I could have just completely misread or misinterpreted your entire poem, that's always one of the dangers of poetry. |