| User | Mister Fizzle |
| Topic | description... |
| Message | I think as an artist whether it be poet or musician, you have to come to a decision of whether or not you want to spend your time making art or explaining it.
So I say to people, most times you will find no description on poems that I wrote. If I did a good job as a writer, you needed no footnotes. -kam What are your opinions on the little description box above your submits? |
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| User | Gravitic | 2005-05-01 | |
| Subject | I agree |
| Message | I, personally, don’t put much in the description field of the poems...unless, they tend to be ones that I know people would take the wrong way if I didn’t explain it at least a little...but I do agree with you that if I do a good enough job with the particular poem then no explanation would be needed...very good thought...I’d never considered it before |
| User | mae | 2005-04-27 | |
| Subject | untitled |
| Message | I agree. Most of the time, I don’t put anything in the description box. When I do, it usually does not explain the poem. mae |
| User | WolfStar | 2005-04-20 | |
| Subject | untitled |
| Message | I try to make the description thing just a little background, what inspired me to write the poem, etc.
And yeah, I do look up words (dictionary.com is my best friend!) when I read one in a poem i don’t understand. Like "penumbra". I didn’t even know that was a word! (but it turned out to sound pretty similar to "umbra" but whatever. Learned a new word anyway.) |
| User | Sandburg | 2005-04-20 | |
| Subject | Agreed |
| Message | I think that all the description field does is offer shortcuts. It’s amazing that people won’t take a moment when reading a poem to look up words they don’t know.
I run to google all the time and put in names I don’t recognize. Sometimes I discover a bit of history that is important to the poem, sometimes I discover a new meaning for a word that I never knew before. And it is like a key to unlock the piece I’m reading. Or the author could tell all in the description. I think Kam’s right. Between the title and the poem, everything should be there. If as an author you don’t think those two things give your reader enough info then maybe you haven’t written the piece completely. |