09-09-2013, 12:10 PM
(09-09-2013, 11:55 AM)Malu Wrote: Sorry Billy, but I was just trying to imply that I don't understand how you can view something as overused and trite if they might not even know much about it. It didn't really add up to me, that's all. I wasn't trying to insinuate anything else.hi malu. i think what's happening here is the poet expecting the reader to see the beauty of the place he writes of. the truth is that bueaty the poet sees isn't portrayed well enough for the reader to see the same thing. it's overused because it's generic. there's little if any freshness. the poet needs to give the read the essence of Hawaii not the essence of every pretty island in the world what you write has been written thousands of times already.
i live in the Philippines we have similar islands here, lots of them. 7000 at last count though not all of them are beautiful
the odds are the reader hasn't seen the island you post of, but that he has seen such poems about other places and things
