I don't know if anyone else feels this way, but I find it really hard to critique poems.  I am, as I've stated in earlier posts, mainly a fiction/nonfiction/screenwriting focus, and every time I go to critique a poem, I always want to think of it like a short story or essay, but it's not.  I know we went over all the musical stuff and poetry language and such, but I still don't know what to say or how to suggest things to people.  I usually wind up saying that I like it but don't know what to suggest, or I say stuff like, "...like how this sounds... good repetition here... awesome onomatopoeia..." etc, etc...  Is anyone else having this same problem as me?  I mean, I know we have to focus on two specific issues in our critiques, but I wish we had more formal guidelines, like a list of things to talk about.  In other workshop classes, my professors gave us a sheet listing different things we COULD POSSIBLY chose to talk about in our critiques: character development, sentence structure, etc, etc...  I think something like that in this class would help a lot.  Maybe even if McCoy put up an example good critique on the projector...it would all really help a lot, because I want to give all you guys a really good critique, but I feel like I let you all down when all I say is... "good repetition... like the pace and tone of this..." and then I say nothing else substantial.  If anyone else is having this issue, let me know.  Or if you have a solution on what you do to give people good critiques, also let me know.  Thanks!!!