06-16-2025, 10:23 AM
Seems that you're concerned with the audience and the message.
I can't say much to you, as I am always more concerned with the poem (and, yeah, myself) than the audience or the message.
Let's take me out of this.
This leaves us with the poem.
What is more important to you, a good/great poem or a message to a specific audience?
You are the poet, the maker of art.
As you are writing, are you concerned with how true the expression is to you or some people you know or a particular audience?
I can only ever speak to anyone here artistically.
And artistically, topical issues are important; in the actual realm where poetry is being written, topical issues are mere fodder for the art.
That may be offensive or insensitive. : If you want your poem to make a difference in the very real currency of topics, you might can do that. And you might can write a great poem that does that and survives as a great poem.
Same with love poems. You write a poem cuz you want a particular person to like you.
You know?
My Intensive Critique concerns the notion of fitting a topical expression.
Dig into the art of the poetry of the theme. Even if it seems to obscure the initial cause or topic.
People will be abusing each other and going to war for a long while.
Be selfish. Be an artist.
I can't say much to you, as I am always more concerned with the poem (and, yeah, myself) than the audience or the message.
Let's take me out of this.
This leaves us with the poem.
What is more important to you, a good/great poem or a message to a specific audience?
You are the poet, the maker of art.
As you are writing, are you concerned with how true the expression is to you or some people you know or a particular audience?
I can only ever speak to anyone here artistically.
And artistically, topical issues are important; in the actual realm where poetry is being written, topical issues are mere fodder for the art.
That may be offensive or insensitive. : If you want your poem to make a difference in the very real currency of topics, you might can do that. And you might can write a great poem that does that and survives as a great poem.
Same with love poems. You write a poem cuz you want a particular person to like you.
You know?
My Intensive Critique concerns the notion of fitting a topical expression.
Dig into the art of the poetry of the theme. Even if it seems to obscure the initial cause or topic.
People will be abusing each other and going to war for a long while.
Be selfish. Be an artist.