12-13-2015, 06:37 PM
The poem reads to me like an arrangement of angsty teenage or pop new age abstractions. There is not a single sentence that I can see making an impression on the reader and therefore qualifying as poetry, which makes the piece very difficult to critique.
The only specific comment I can offer is on the title: what does "How to write like Largo" mean? Who or what is Largo, if not the Italian for slow tempo in a piece of classical music? Of course, there may be any number of people with the last name Largo whom this poem might be alluding to, but if that's the case then some more hints would be necessary.
EDIT: On second thought, it's possible that 'Largo' is this generation's Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings and the entire poem is a dig at this Largo character.....I'll come back to this later.
As parody, it would work only if I had an idea as to who or what was being parodied...
The only specific comment I can offer is on the title: what does "How to write like Largo" mean? Who or what is Largo, if not the Italian for slow tempo in a piece of classical music? Of course, there may be any number of people with the last name Largo whom this poem might be alluding to, but if that's the case then some more hints would be necessary.
EDIT: On second thought, it's possible that 'Largo' is this generation's Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings and the entire poem is a dig at this Largo character.....I'll come back to this later.
As parody, it would work only if I had an idea as to who or what was being parodied...