12-31-2016, 04:23 AM
I'll give my initial interpretation of your piece line by line, then give a critique of some aspects.
I hope my thoughts are useful - Good luck with revision!
Best,
Chris
(12-30-2016, 12:02 AM)tectak Wrote: If you could share the feeling of a poem,I like the first two lines, the idea of blue and its multiple meanings is an excellent opening to the overall theme. I really like the rhyme implemented and how it is circular moving outward. It starts in the middle with sleeping/beating and senses/amanuensis, but then works outward with night/sight, why/sky, and then the final repetition. I don't know how I feel about "amanuensis" - I like its meaning in relation to the piece (albeit slightly confusing for me), the rhyme feels forced with "senses". It might be confusing for me simply because I'm not familiar with the term and had to look it up.
the colour blue would mean much more than sky. - Poetry can have multiple meanings, dependent on who is reading (what is being felt) and what is taken away. Blue is often associated with the sky, but if you could "share the feeling of a poem" you could enlighten how blue can mean so much more. This speaks to me more generally; poetry can be hard to find definite meanings, but if the feeling (either the writer or reader) could be given to others, a poem could have clearer interpretations - the sky is blue, but blue can be taken in so many ways in a general sense.
The heart that throbs beside you in the night
would gently send you sleeping,
hypnotised by rhythmic beating, - I take the heart as feelings relating to the first line, beating inside one's body, giving off a calmness that brings one to sleep. It beats rhythmically so the feelings are rhythmic, putting one into a trance.
'til the light fades from your senses - beginning to dream
and your dream's amanuensis
is a poet without sight; - The ideas your dreams conjure from your own thoughts while awake make a poet blind - the feelings while dreaming aren't legitimate?
but you never need ask why,
if you could share the feeling of a poem. - Parallels the beginning, if feelings of a poem could be exchanged you wouldn't need to try and decipher the meanings and feelings.
Inspired by selfie from the excellent Ian Donald Crockett, of the same title.
tectak 2016
I hope my thoughts are useful - Good luck with revision!
Best,
Chris

