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| LJ Cohen
Moderator Username: ljc Post Number: 8828 Registered: 07-2002 |
So, you've read through the library thread on critique here: http://wildpoetryforum.com/~wildpoet/discus/messages/33334/39454.html?1187061527 But you still are unsure of your critiquing skills. If you are already commenting on a poem in a non specific way ("I really liked this"), can you pick out one thing that stood out for you in the poem? The more specific you are, the more helpful your comment will be to the poet. Your comments doesn't even need to be framed in academic language. You might not know enjambment from onomatopoeia, but you like the sound of a certain few lines in the poem. You read them out loud just for fun. Tell the poet that. Once in a Blue Muse Blog LJCohen | ||
| Teresa White
Intermediate Member Username: teresa_white Post Number: 819 Registered: 01-2005 |
Lisa, Thanks for the help with critique --the links here and abroad. I've been writing poems for decades but didn't know fig about critiquing until I got my first computer. Heck, I was so naive, I thought revising was the same as cheating. LOL. I've still a long way to go in refining my critique 'style' but I don't feel quite as inept as I first did when I joined writing forums about 9 years ago. ~Teresa | ||
| Judy Thompson
Intermediate Member Username: judyt54 Post Number: 737 Registered: 11-2007 |
I think we learn as much about our own work when we crit, Teresa. If it works for someone else, what is the voice that they're using, WHY does it work, and how. When I learned to read critically and carefully I began to see what I was doing wrong, as well as right. A good crit board like this one allows for a dialogue between writers, and I think that's as important as the crit itself. Sometimes it's only in the dialogue, the back and forth, that you see what's needed. I know what you mean about the Precious Vessel That Is My Poem. We don't touch a hair of its head, nope. Lol Reading aloud someone else's work is essential, I find, to spot the rhythms, the mis-steps, the fudge factors. |
