02-14-2014, 12:38 PM
(02-14-2014, 12:30 PM)tomoffing Wrote: I'm afraid this reads as just another adolescent's ennui in their first blush of gainful employment. It is the old "cog-in-the-wheel-we-areNoted and appreciated. It's the office I'm after though so I'll go the opposite direction I think.
ground-down by the machine
of meaninglessness" dystopia with a farm instead of a machine. Orwell did it better without all of the alliterative nonsense. There is not much here that I find interesting. You would do better to lose the nonsense, and just write of the farm, the metaphor by itself, leaving the office to the reader—and out of the poem.
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That could probably work too, if you keep the thoughts original, and specific to the scene.

