 Landcaster 2008-11-07 . chapter 1First the harsh stuff: though I loved the poem, and you did use some solid vocab (like zephyr), some of the rhyming to be conceived as simplistic. Also, to agree with another review, I think that branching out would be key for you. You have a lot of skill, but try practicing sound poems especially. Try using words that sound like what your speaking about-quick, terse words for swift actions, or smooth "s" filled line for the wind. Shakespeare uses it a lot, and it is a key tool for many poets. I think that if you freed up your words from stricture structure, or implemented some more tools in prose, your poems would instantly improve. Now for the guess: Is it about life and aging, the leaf a symbol for the self, the tree a symbol for home, and winter a symbol for death? Anyways, good work overall. I love your work. |
 Zoey McCusker 2008-08-26 . chapter 1I like it! You had a good use of imagery, I thought. It was a little hard to follow at times and the grammar was shy of perfect, but nothing incredibly serious. I liked how you chose to go inside of this scene, and a little more branching perhaps to other things about nature would probably help to boost it up to the next level. Overall, I thought it was very good.
Now about the leaf, I think it represents someone's life path or maturity growth. Am i right? :)
Keep writing! :) |
 Cloverless 2008-08-26 . chapter 1It's okay. It's not great, not bad, rather mundane and normal. The symbolism isn't unique unto itself; it's been done before, and will be done for a long time still.
It's not that the poem is bad, so don't think that. You get incredible points for using the word zephyr, and even more so, for using it properly. I think the biggest problem is that you seem to be better than you're giving yourself credit for. If this is the type of thing that you enjoy writing, then disregard my opinion. But I've read a few of your other things that you've written, and you've got some talent. You just need to grow a little more as a writer. And the only way to do that is to dabble in some other types of poetry. Try writing free-verse, or writing in meters without rhyming. I'm not saying that you can never rhyme again, or that only poetry that doesn't rhyme is good poetry. Some of the greatest poems ever written have had rhyming schemes, and there's nothing wrong with it. But, in order for you to grow, you have to try different things to. Sometimes writing in different styles can force you to think in different ways, and give you some unique phrasings, or styles.
I'd just like to see you dabble in other things once in a while.
P.S. -- The first three sentences shouldn't be sentences. Those should be commas, not periods. |
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