The Most Honest Critique You've Ever Recieved♥

  • ♥•oOo Nikki oOo•♥©
    18 years ago

    Everyone Gets Praised For Their Poetry, But Whats The Most Honest Thing You've Ever Been Told On One Of Your Poems (Whether It Be Good Or Bad) ?

  • ♥•oOo Nikki oOo•♥©
    18 years ago

    Darlene

    Oh my God, Nikki! Your pathetic poem just set the woman's movement back!!!!! Colour of Love? Please, the only thing I see is a very sad lonely woman who just can't handle men! Good luck and feel better......

  • Letty
    18 years ago

    The most honest critique I recieved was when Bret told me that I don't use enough description and that I should use punctuation. But the thing about that is I have the hardest time putting in the right punctuation. so usually I just put comma's, period's, and question mark's where I know they belong. lol. But after reading so many other poets work on this site I understood what he ment. A poem is not the same without the correct punctuation. So I thank him for that and I'm working on that problem as of yesterday. I also recieved critique from Dumpstead that was very useful and I have been trying to work and that everyday also. He sujested that I expand my vocabulary a little more so that I want have to use three and four letter simple words so much. And that turned out to be good also. So I thank them both.

    Letty

  • Lauren Waszkiewicz
    18 years ago

    well since i rarely ever get actual critique-mostly i get good job, keep writing, !- this is the most honest i guess-

    Okay, the emotion in this poem was very powerful, however, I felt a little confused by it. It seemed you contradicted yourself a bit with your ideas. Saying that you want him to find someone ese and move on but yet you still need him? I don't know. It was good, just didn't get it. 4/5 =]

    but that was what my poem was about, contradicting myself. haha, oh well.

    x♥x:Lauren

  • Gary Jurechka
    18 years ago

    I listen/read all my criticism-good or bad.Then I decide if it is worthwhile.As a published poet in the zines, I got tired of hearing the good comments as the more critical/bad comments showed me more what I needed to work on.It is flattering to get good comments, but honest comments, good or bad help you develop more.As long as it is constructive criticism.

    Gary Jurechka

  • Jessica
    18 years ago

    The most honest critique I have ever recieved is from Dumpstead. =]]

    Dumpstead at 2006-10-11

    Your theme is very heavy and as a reader I have no clue what is the concept of the poem. The words used are too complex and adds to the heavy feeling especially since no concept can be related to.

    But your imagination is good here, better than the "Weakened butterfly" and you have a vision in this poem that the reader can feel and recognize.

    It is as if you have felt this feeling and has expressed it so strongly, reader can relate to, but you do not know exactly what is the feeling and it's causes. All this complex thoughts and feelings.. it feels as if frustration was the soul of the poem. (I do not mean to say you were frustrated when writing the poem, plezz understand that I mean that frustration is the theme that I could relate to...)

    And I want to seriously see some punctuation in your poems. Please do not assume that everybody interprets the end of a line as a pause. Should it be a comma, semicolon or a fullstop that the reader is supposed to assume? Rhyming is better than "Weakened butterfly".

    Try writing longer poems. Your thought process is soo good, do not cut it short for lack of time or words. Come up with lighter concepts for short poems.

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    If that is not honest, I don't know what is. Lol

  • Bret Higgins
    18 years ago

    After five or ten poems where I was being clever, using phrases and what not to hold a secret message that would require some serious deciphering, JPM told me to stop bull sh***ing myself and get on with writing poems.

    There is nothing quite as effective as a solid kick up the bum.

  • Twisted Heart
    18 years ago

    DUMPSTEAD, of course. He will rip a poem apart, and put it back together. I value his critiques. He has become a friend i can count on to give me advise on what I write.

    He takes each line and shows me my mistakes in grammer, word usage and all. I may not agree with him on all of his critiques, but I can certainly respect him for the honesty.

    Happiness
    Jeannie

  • Fighter (Ariane L.)
    18 years ago

    When someone told me (dont remember who) that the poem just seemed forced and that it wasn't as good as usual.