05-11-2013, 08:30 AM
buckowski is one my reads for uncluttered poetry.
many poets haven't a clue what a metaphor is or how to use it. similes are easy to understand. ambiguity is a ball ache. often people write with ambiguity and even they have no idea how they got to where they did, they already had an answer in their head. if they understand it, so should we. as leanne said, a good poem is often an enjoyable one. often those are the ones we don't understand straight away but find after a couple of reads that the poem opens up to us. read jabberwocky from alice in wonderland, a nonsense poem, at first it's shite but each read and we see more and more of what the poem is saying. how ambiguous can a poem be than that particular one yet we see what he's saying, that's because he's saying what he is for a reason. the bad one's are ambiguous because only the writer has any clue what their saying. you'll get the hang of understanding poetry to a better extent but if a poems gobbledy gook it won't be easy for anyone. when giving feedback just say what you think "i don't understand the metaphor"
many poets haven't a clue what a metaphor is or how to use it. similes are easy to understand. ambiguity is a ball ache. often people write with ambiguity and even they have no idea how they got to where they did, they already had an answer in their head. if they understand it, so should we. as leanne said, a good poem is often an enjoyable one. often those are the ones we don't understand straight away but find after a couple of reads that the poem opens up to us. read jabberwocky from alice in wonderland, a nonsense poem, at first it's shite but each read and we see more and more of what the poem is saying. how ambiguous can a poem be than that particular one yet we see what he's saying, that's because he's saying what he is for a reason. the bad one's are ambiguous because only the writer has any clue what their saying. you'll get the hang of understanding poetry to a better extent but if a poems gobbledy gook it won't be easy for anyone. when giving feedback just say what you think "i don't understand the metaphor"