Do you think it`s insulting if...

You work so hard on a poem
and people say...
"I don`t get it" or
"Your poem is very confusing"
I`m confused because one time i felt really insulted after letting out my feelings in a poem and someone said "Your poem is really confusing"
I actually deleted it. I regret it though.

No I don't see it as an insult, if your poetry is your emotions and how you feel than someone says its very confusing, than maybe thats how you felt when you wrote that poem, you might have been confused about something in your life and when it came out on paper, it made sence to you, or they have it wrong, like you know sometimes how you write a really poem and you understand it because you know exactly where you were going and what it means, but other people might not catch that, never delete your poems, even if you don't want it on the site save in a document on your computer or handwrite it and put it somewhere safe, its your own originality and there will never be one the same.

I don't like getting that comment either... but it can be an indication that perhaps you need to write more clearly. It's definitely made me look at some of my poems more closely, whether or not I ended up changing them. I mean, not everyone may be able to understand you, but if -nobody- can.. then you might as well not post, I suppose.

I worked all night on a poem and then when I showed my brother he criticized it. He said he didn't get it and that it made absolutely no sense. That really hurt, he didn't support me on it and I think he was very blunt. I don't like people saying that.

Personally if I work really hard on a poem and then someone goes I dont get it its to confusing I just leave it and choose to belive that the meaning was too deep for them to understand and congradulate myself on my writing ability.

Yeah I know that sounds a little self centered but I'm my biggest fan sometimes.

Everyone has different views on what the poem means or whatever. The writer, as well as everyone who reads it. I acctually really enjoy poems that i dont exactly understand. It makes me want to understand it, so i open dictionary.com on a new tab, and i acctually look up words, so then i can try and find a clearler meaning to it.
Whoever doesnt understand a poem, just try and understand it, come to your own conclusion from the words. If you cant leave a comment asking the reader to PM you what they meant by it.
I once read a poem that was all a metaphor. I came up with my own meaning from it, and by the end of the message i asked could you tell me what you meant by this poem. And well i got a PM saying it can mean whatever you want it to mean. And those words, well were really true. It comes down to how your brain works. I mean you might read a poem now, and think you know what it means. In the next 10 years, you ocme across the poem again, and you find you feel it has a totally different meaning. Were you wrong?

I think that its critisim. there trying to tell you to explain more. but if u like it, then thats all that matters

I have a poem called " a perfect rose" , while it has nothing to do with nature , a lot of people who commented ( well, a lot....15 comments on a poem was huge) sugested that I would place it in a differeny category , and insulted isn't probably the wright word for what I felt, but I certainly was dissapointed a bit ,

Well thats good at least they got it i wouldnt take it as an insult because i would want to understand what it was about if i wrote that because i love poetry enough to ask questions

Well honestly you might need some constructive critisism so amybe if you change it a little bit he can understand it he may just not have the same perseptive on things

Not really.
I mean, IMO, as long as I understand what I was trying to say, and I know that I'm proud of what I've written, I don't let things like that get to me.

I don`t think its an insult ,I think they are just being honest Maybe your language or style is beyond their understanding ,Many times a poem that has metaphors is misunderstood,and yet maybe they see in it their own meaning.We ask for comments,they should be honest ones.

I think about what they say, and then try to look at it from their view. I often get that things dont makes sense but to me they do. You jsut have to take a step ack and look at your poem like you aren't the one who wrote it. But i would say that if only one or two people aren't getting it, then its just them, (everyone has a different view of life, and the world) but if no one who reads it gets it, maybe there is a way to clarify what was meant in the peom, with out destroying the meaning?
~Bianca

They prolly didn't mean it as an insult. Maybe they just haven't had any experiences close to that and don't understand that type of emotion. We all see things through different lights =)

When people come across poems that they don't understand and voice themselves to that effect, you can only really tell whether they are being close-minded if they choose not to follow through with actually wanting to understand it. For instance, I showed "Undoing" to a friend of mine, which utilises a fair number of oxymorons with underlying symbolic points, and, fair enough, he couldn't make much sense of it, but I had good fun talking through the poem with him and what each section was intended to mean.

I find it rather amusing...