Poetry Forum

Also, one thing to consider about the "suicide poets" (I'm thinking Anne Sexton and Syliva Plath specifically)is that whereas other artists may have been famous and then committed suicide, the suicide poets stated their intentions while they were famous. It is because of this, I kind of fe...

Holly crap you guys are awesome! Thank you so much for looking at my stuff. I will definitely rework some stuff, and try to get better at polishing. Thanks!

Gaaah this is hard. I tried my best ;__; The tears and horrors we all share are bottled in delicate mason jars. We always worry the seal will break, and out will leak the invisible scars. I long for a song to burst wildly from my lips like a wild and crazed beast. But the jars weigh to heavily on my...

I guess, I was wondering if someone is a person who leads an extremely questionable life, if that effects the impact of their poetry. The one way I could see this, is if the thing they did was so heinously bad it made them lose their "humanity." There was quite a lot of controversy surroun...

Back in the day, in one of my lit classes we got into a pretty rowdy discussion over Sylvia Plath's poetry. Our first point we debated is if someone has to be a semi-decent human being to be a poet (Sylvia killed herself by putting her head in the oven, with her children in the other room). We also ...

Thank you for picking up on that! I've been really conflicted lately. I keep trying to mess around with stream of consciousness stuff, but I'm not sure if I'm putting too many concepts into a poem. I've mostly been trying to mess around with different types of writing trying to find my own form. I t...

Nice to meet you too! I have heard of them before, but I haven't listened to them. After listening to it, for lack of a more poetic way of saying it, I think they're pretty friggin awesome. The lyrics are really dreamy and abstract, but the vocals match the dreaminess. They kind of reminded me of Go...

I love the subdued, melancholic, almost bluesy sound to this song. He says the line "I'll pull the devil down with me one way or another," he sounds resigned instead of desperate (as I would expect him to sound). I really like the line, "I'll sell apples and ice water at the temple.&q...

I have been looking at the lyrics to this album, and I really think they have some poetic merit. Their sound may be a bit too..experimental...for some musical palates. However, their lyrics are really cool. I like the song because many people over the ages have compared life to dancing, however they...

I think that one aspect of good writing is the ability to subvert expectations, and in that sense I think this poem is a success. We all want and expect a fish to go out fighting, because we think that's how we're going to go out. However, I think what Bishop was trying to say though the fish's lack...

Thanks for the corrections! I always hate the tenses of "lay" and "lie," too darn confusing. Plus if I say "lie in bed," people might think I am just being mean to a boyfriend. Lol. Also, yeah. I looked up "schadenfreudian," apparently it can also mean a silk ...

"A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds."
— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I love Ezara Pound. He is one of the most compelling literary figures I have ever encountered (if you don't know his personal history he was the godfather of modernist poetry, and he was eventually jailed for supporting Mussolini. He spent many years in an outdoor cage writing poetry on a type write...

This is one of my favorite poems, because Bishop has the ability to admire things without romanticizing them. She describes something as being aged, but doesn't go through the motions of making it something desirable or beautiful. If anyone likes this poem, they should check out "At The Fish Ho...

Quite frankly, I had to work up a lot of courage to post on here. There are so many talented people! I have been messing around with free-verse/prose style, and I wanted some C&C, so I can see if it's viable or just stupid and pretentious. Someday I dream of writing like Elizabeth Bishop and Rob...

I really enjoyed this poem; I like how you characterized the discontent of youth in such playful and original ways. My favorite part was, "his teeth are fortresses along a rocky path." It gave me the feeling that he was smiling and clenching his jaw the entire time, due to the hypocrisy of...

I lay on the rooftops every night tracing lines connecting me to you. Hoping the stars will someday shift following the direction of my fingertips. I can‘t see myself with anyone else: it’s the curse of idealism you see. One kiss, and I’ll blindly follow you, anywhere you wish guide me. No matter ho...

Thaks everyone for their helpful coments ^____^

Yeah, it's hard to tell when you're writing a love poem, if it will cause people to lose their lunch, but I'm glad it isn't the case here.

I've had writers block for months so be gentle >__< Can I love you any more than I do right now? I fail to brandish my sharp cynicism when you press your cheek to mine. There is danger here loving so deeply. With everyday I worry you complete me, and what I’ll do If I ever find you gone. I’ve never ...

I don't have any constructive crit on this one. I donno if you intentionally formatted the poem this way, but the words seem to drip down. I can't really explain it. Anyways...nice work.

Aww, thank you guys. I am still learning how to punctuate poems >_< but I will definately use this advice ^__^

Thanks for the crit guys ^__^ I'll try to clarify.

Well, with this poem I was trying to use imagery to tell the story of someone who was angry and wanted to say hurtful things, but instead they swallowed that anger. The end question was asking if that act to hurt me, or to hurt them. If they reacted to me I would have no guilt, because they would st...

Ironically, I was reminded of Larkin in terms of style before you mentioned him. I think most of the poem is pretty strong, but the ending was a bit weak for me. I usually favor a bit more ambiguity, but the way you did it came off a bit heavy handed (this is just my personal preference maybe). The ...

There's only one explanation for this. To quote someone from another forum: ok whats up people so im sitting here watching the news and i hear a specific show here on CNN call Barak Obama " the messiah" not once but two days running now.... heres the thing my buddy and i for sometime now h...