05-27-2013, 05:41 AM
You seem to be full of questions your own confidence to ably analyse and box up the offered feedback into psychological profiles for each reply. I have a few questions to ask.
What was your intent and objective when you joined the site? (If it was not to write poetry and then endeavour to improve said poetry, (as you suggest in your statment that you would be unlikely to write anything further) Why join a poetry site? Do you actually appreciate poetry or is this only an exercise in testing your psycoanalysis profiling techniques. Because from your comments and conduct thus far, it feels like you are gathering a set of data for modelling into a research paper or some other equally non poetry based objective. Your replies would suggest that you have little interest in the poetry and as rowens mentions above so many questions but little about poetry. I would second his suggestion that you might like to try writing a poem.
Lastly you might like to add the following to your profile data.
I did not find the last lines more "sensible" I was just trying to find something polite and possibly encouraging to say about a poem that was entered into a "for crit" section that, as Milo so ably put it, was just a list of words and that in my opinion had the appearance of trying to be pretentious and clever. My intent was that if the poems was workshoped I could have perhaps then encouraged the writer to think about the aspects of the clichés that littered the last lines (that again Milo brought up) in a future edit, so in short my reply was not in anyway near a reflection of my thoughts. Therefore I would suggest that your sampling option in this case is flawed and you should reformat your techniques.
If I write a list say Fridge, clinic, carpentry am I making some deep and meaningful comment about...well of course the reader will need to work this out, because it's art darling and cannot be confined to just one interpretation. (I might have been thinking about the need to conform to a standard of image that says being overweight is unacceptable and drawing a line from this into mental instability and the extreme aspects of this resulting in high suicide rates. Or perhaps I was just putting a load of Bollacks out there for the hell of it). Perhaps rowens is toying with you to mess with your head, just because he can or perhaps not.
Your humble opinion of me as deduced from your reading of my comments...a reflection of an individual comforted by shared values, strong societal norms and a well-defined worldview.....sadly not even close enough to be classified meaningless.
What was your intent and objective when you joined the site? (If it was not to write poetry and then endeavour to improve said poetry, (as you suggest in your statment that you would be unlikely to write anything further) Why join a poetry site? Do you actually appreciate poetry or is this only an exercise in testing your psycoanalysis profiling techniques. Because from your comments and conduct thus far, it feels like you are gathering a set of data for modelling into a research paper or some other equally non poetry based objective. Your replies would suggest that you have little interest in the poetry and as rowens mentions above so many questions but little about poetry. I would second his suggestion that you might like to try writing a poem.
Lastly you might like to add the following to your profile data.
I did not find the last lines more "sensible" I was just trying to find something polite and possibly encouraging to say about a poem that was entered into a "for crit" section that, as Milo so ably put it, was just a list of words and that in my opinion had the appearance of trying to be pretentious and clever. My intent was that if the poems was workshoped I could have perhaps then encouraged the writer to think about the aspects of the clichés that littered the last lines (that again Milo brought up) in a future edit, so in short my reply was not in anyway near a reflection of my thoughts. Therefore I would suggest that your sampling option in this case is flawed and you should reformat your techniques.
If I write a list say Fridge, clinic, carpentry am I making some deep and meaningful comment about...well of course the reader will need to work this out, because it's art darling and cannot be confined to just one interpretation. (I might have been thinking about the need to conform to a standard of image that says being overweight is unacceptable and drawing a line from this into mental instability and the extreme aspects of this resulting in high suicide rates. Or perhaps I was just putting a load of Bollacks out there for the hell of it). Perhaps rowens is toying with you to mess with your head, just because he can or perhaps not.
Your humble opinion of me as deduced from your reading of my comments...a reflection of an individual comforted by shared values, strong societal norms and a well-defined worldview.....sadly not even close enough to be classified meaningless.