What Catches Your Eye About a Poem?♥

When You First Click On a Poem....What Draws Your Attention To It...And What Are Some Of The Things That Keep Your Intrest?

For Me Personaly.......

♥The Title (I Love Eye-catching Titles)

♥The Begining Of The Poem

♥The Format

An ORIGINAL title is what interests me the most. Do you know how many friggin "Alone"/"Why?"/"Suicide Letter"/"Violets are red, violets are.." ya da ya da ya da poems i've come across? It's very unappealing..

If the first line of the poem doesn't engage me the second i read it, there's a chance that i will dismiss it altogether. The rest of the poem could be just as boring as the first line, so why proceed?

Originality is what really catches my interest in general, though.

//Ari\\

I would have to say the title too

The title is the first thing that catches the eye, draws me in. Secondly, that first, opening line is very important as far as making me want to read more. The first line forms your expectation for the rest of the poem. A good, great first line can and does create excitement as to how good the poem your reading shall be, while a poor, bad one kills a readers enthusiasm and expectation for the poem being read. And as to what keeps you interested and makes a poem worth wild, as one (me) continues reading past the title and that initial first line, basically it’s how the poem flows, it’s over all rhythm, whether that be in the rhyming pattern (scheme), the rhyme choice, the word choice, or its arrangement as far as how it individual parts are put together. How well a poem is structured is very important, and how well it is written is always a factor. A poem that holds your attention is a poem that seems easy to read, because it just flows so well and is so well written!!!

anything that doesn't say love poem

firstly an original title, then an original text, i hate simularity, it bores me!

sammi x

The title
The beginning
The ending
the flow

title
details
connecting kinda feeling
and the last line

I always like an original title, and if I can see from the first stanza that the poem has very good flow. Sometimes I'll read any poem, and just like it...but to catch my eye, I need to see some interesting words

the title.

if it has feelings to it

The title, if it's original or if I feel like it talks about me or someting going on in my life.