06-05-2013, 11:37 PM
(06-05-2013, 08:36 PM)TheBardUK Wrote: Opportunity has been closed offI commenting mainly because you asked on your previous (unedited) poem. It is a big step up from your previous one - but I still stand by my decision that you need to post in mild until you develop your own distinctive voice. I post in mild, and I post in novice. It isn't for 'noobs' or for bad writers - far from it.
out of limits for the masses.
To succeed is improbable
no matter what they say.
Progression an impossibility It's really a re-write of your first line
separated in society,
a boundary, a border. One or the other, both aren't needed
Keep the weak at bay.
Dictatorships are ever present,
a God who leads the men. Thankyou for defining dictatorship
No equal chance for everyone, And again
its always left to fate.
Education doesn’t help
if a child is born a slave. This isn't true, nor applicable to the lines surround it. It feels as if you've written it, like the sound of it, and have found somewhere to shove it in
The cards you’ve been dealt,
shouldn’t fuel you with hate. You spend the start of the poem negatively describing a dictatorship, and then you go to this? Saying it 'shouldn't fuel you with hate' is sounding to me like 'oh, it's not that bad'. I will presume it is some kind of clever twist way above my head.
If the people are the power
then why is life so hopeless? Oh - life is hopeless again. The previous line is ruled out.
No free rides, no hand outs,
you don’t amount to much. Rephrasing, again and again and again
No help from the bigger fish
to fit inside the pond. Quite a nice analogy, if not a little overused regarding fishies and pondies
The people can’t develop
without some straws to clutch. Drinking straws? Hay? I get what you're saying, but straws...really?
A flame within has died,
fiery passion caving in. Wait. What? Who's flame? Is there a character missing who's flame has died? The flame of revolution, of people's hope? Explain please
Have you tried your hardest, To do what?
or are you just concealed? Are they concealed? Hidden? From whom?
A double negative in society, A double negative = positive
still no positives are born. But a double negative is a position by definition...
The establishment has spoken,
Humanity’s fate is sealed. Last two lines are clear enough
Apart from what I have commented on your poem, there are a few other things I'd look at doing. Most of your sentences are of the same structure and length. This gets boring. Use differing lengths of line for tension, suspense. Variety is the key unless there is a specific reason against it - and I fail to see one in yours. This is prose broken into lines.
You've written about dictatorship - and it is relatively clear, understandable - but you are just writing out the stereotypes that people know about dictatorship (EG, most people do badly, nobody gets a say). If you are trying to make a point about the people never getting a chance, read into the subject. Read Les Miserables and add the experiences of the people experiencing it into your poem. Take the futility and desperation of these people and use it to make a great piece of work.
- Amy
(You wouldn't be surprised to know my parents did not christen me UnicornRainbowCake.)
(You wouldn't be surprised to know my parents did not christen me UnicornRainbowCake.)

