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June 28, 2006 at 4:39 pm
dantheman123ya
some what true. thoughful post
June 28, 2006 at 7:04 pm
Carol
It seems like a lot of poetry I’ve written has come out of trials that I’ve gone through and things I felt that God was showing me.
Carol
June 28, 2006 at 7:32 pm
helenl
I think a lot of my early poetry was written when I was more down than up. And it’s easier to write from emotion. A poet is like a child; the poet gives it birth but must allow the poem to say what it wants to. This can be upsetting, when you say the opposite of what you think you “ought” to say. But that’s how it is. The poem teaches the poet what he/she really believes.
June 29, 2006 at 11:25 pm
TheJew
You must of been an emo kid. “a poet is like a child”??? Are you high? I appreciate poetry, but not in the “im so sad im going to go write some angsty couplets way”. If you want to make some sort of point with poetry, by all means do so, langston hughes rocks the casbah, but if you want too whine, then dont devalue your words. Angst helps no one, especially you, as the poet.
June 30, 2006 at 7:46 am
Helen Losse
Sorry The Jew, I meant “the poem is like a child.” (The poet is the creator.) Of course, the poet wants to make a point. I don’t think I’ve written an angst poem in my life. Emotion is important to poetry, but not at the expense of image. A poem is not a rant; it is a picture. A poem may begin as a rant, or any other way, for that matter. But angst should be removed during revision. See my essay, “Suggestions For Poets” in “The Centifugal Eye” http://home.earthlink.net/~tinyviolet/thecentrifugaleyepoetryjournal/id97.html for more of what I believe about poetry.