05-04-2014, 03:16 AM
At this point, I'm a little annoyed. You posted this poem in the Serious Workshopping forum, yet you don't seem to take it seriously yourself -- even to the extent of offering it to me to do what I want with it. As a new forum member, I am trying to do the right thing by critiquing other people's poems; but frankly, that's a waste of time if other members post poems that they already consider to be throw-aways.
You have the temerity to criticize my critique by telling me that I made firm statements of fact which, by implication, I shouldn't have made (I don't think I did that), and then you offer me the bad advice that I shouldn't try too hard to "get" a poem that I'm critiquing.
The lesson I'm taking from this is that I should steer clear of your poems, and enigmatic poems in general. Life is too short.
You have the temerity to criticize my critique by telling me that I made firm statements of fact which, by implication, I shouldn't have made (I don't think I did that), and then you offer me the bad advice that I shouldn't try too hard to "get" a poem that I'm critiquing.
The lesson I'm taking from this is that I should steer clear of your poems, and enigmatic poems in general. Life is too short.