12-08-2015, 06:23 PM
It might help if you wrote out full sentences.
Good poems, even those written in a 'poetic' style, are readable as prose should one choose to read them as such.
Your poem, on the other hand, is a set of unrelated statements. For instance, if nostalgia is personified by a bird perching on a frail limb, then it cannot subsequently become the fading note of a hymn.
Good poems, even those written in a 'poetic' style, are readable as prose should one choose to read them as such.
Your poem, on the other hand, is a set of unrelated statements. For instance, if nostalgia is personified by a bird perching on a frail limb, then it cannot subsequently become the fading note of a hymn.
~ I think I just quoted myself - Achebe