| User | mandyshay07 | | Topic | help me understand! | | Message | umm i dont get why everyone is so against writing in the 1st person..wats so wrong with it??? |
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| User | jaycee | 2004-05-02 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | First person poetry also has a looser stucture to it in most cases.
Ex.
I looked into your eyes filled with tears
vs.
Looking into eyes filled with tears.
The structure is a bit tighter and your more likely to look for ways to improve "filled with tears" to make it more original like "brimming with saline diamonds." It also creates something that is more global and far reaching. First person can also be overused in a poem. I try to limit the I and You to two per poem. It helps you reach as a poet and keeps your writes from being a rant. Although I must admit that occasionally everyone has to do that too.
jan |
| User | roxygirl239 | 2004-04-30 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | well many teens write and first person, and it doesn’t sound that great alot of the time. teen angst. like webmaster said. |
| User | Lana | 2004-04-27 | | | Subject | think close | | Message | well actually is not that you are against writting in the first person, but probably just try to put yourself in someone elses perspective when you are writting about a subject. This is because in order for people to relate to it and fell it, they must have lived it as well and seen it happen. So not only writting about your problems makes it easier to relate. Besides it is more of a challenge for you as a writter. |
| User | Webmaster | 2004-04-25 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | It helps develope your style to think indirectly. Some people just use poetry as a venting tool and directly spoon feed their emotions of teen angst, "nobody understands me, he left me, why did you leave me, you’ll cry when I die" etc, etc. Instead of creating a scene or parallel and building up a mood to make the reader feel the emotion they use first person free verse typically talking to the entity they have emotional conflict with. It’s just spoon feeding emotions to the reader rather then letting them use their brain and ’feel’ the emotion. Read the classics and the older writers. Work to be unique.
It’s okay to use, but it’s good exercise to not use it. It can be a challenge, especially when we’re writing about relationship conflicts we face. |
| User | mandyshay07 | 2004-04-25 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | isn’t it a good thing? i like writing in 1st persin i dont c... |
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