10-11-2017, 07:27 AM
(10-11-2017, 06:29 AM)shemthepenman Wrote: no, lizzie, i am not making up abotrary rules... it is simply a logical observation that the form you choose could possibly be detrimental to the desired effect of a confessional poem. Fine then, just rules. I don't like rules.
and on this occasion at least something you did was detrimental to the credibility of the poem for tectak. he says so. You just don't say.
For example, if you are writing as a 6 year old but choose the form of, i don’t know some complicated thing, then it may be jarring. Yes, I've had that come up before, as well. Makes me wonder if I should start reading books about fiction instead of poetry, because nothing I'm reading covers this issue of character development.
that’s all. i am not passing judgement on whether tectak was right to say this of your poem, Nether am I. Crit is just crit, and I have no opinion about that. I just wanted to start a discussion about the topic in general.
but in general it is a aspect of writing 1st person confessional poetry (in the form of a character) that is worth taking into account. All advice heard and considered.