Too abstract...  

Posted by colincomerford

At this point in the semester I believe I have somewhat of a hold on what poetry is. I understand all the aspects of it and what makes a good poem, but, I'm not too sure if I am writing poems well. I find myself drifting off sometimes and not even understanding what I am writing. I attempt to use concrete language but my work always seems to come out very abstract. Maybe it is my subconscious writing these dark and mysterious poems and they are the way I had initially intended to write them without purposely doing so. Is there anybody else that feels their poems are very odd and abstract without intending to do so? Hopefully the workshop will help me with writing my poems more like I intended them to...

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2 comments

Mike Battey  

I know exactly what you mean, I always feel like I always have to constantly remind myself to link certain things to concrete ideas for an audience. Although I'm still not sure what makes a good poem, people have such a multitude of different opinions that it depends on the person, when I look at different "great" poets some of them have such different writing styles I feel like its hard to say whats good and what isn't.

March 29, 2012 at 9:21 PM
Maya Drummond  

I completely understand what you are going through. I too cannot seem to make my work more concrete, I feel as if im almost taking a way from how I truly feel, that the poetry doesnt flow as well as I intended it to.

"writing styles I feel like its hard to say whats good and what isn't."

I thought this line was well said.

March 29, 2012 at 11:32 PM

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