| User | Amanda Lynn | | Topic | just wondering | | Message | just something i noticed today
I come home today and sit at my pc reading poems and letters and such and i come across a poem so well written so magiclly worded that it took my breath away its an older poem but being new to the forum it was new to me and i keep reading and re reading and then i read a comment and he gets blasted for not spaceing ....COME ON GUYS....
im just wondering am i the only one who just reads the words not careing about the punctuation and such ....i know some things need it to be properly convied but i dont care if i ever see a period in my life ....lord knows i dont use them my thoughts rush out and forward and move on with such intinsity i just dont have time for them...... i was taught that the most important part of the poetry was the emotion poored forth...make up a word ....dont rhyme ....i meen wasnt it sylvia plath that said gobbledy goo...
i know that to some a period and a space is the beginning and ending to life and i do believe that yes its important to some extint but when its obviouse that it was just a miss type and not intentional cant you look over it as hard as it may be
i guess that is the beauty of a place like this <Elite SKills> is that so many people can get there poetry read and get views back from so many different people
and a good poet is someone who writes not careing about the cretics but writes just the same noing it may never be read by anyothers eyes but there own
so to all of those that get reemed for punctuation and such remember a period is a period but a good poem is a good poem whether it has one or not |
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| User | DaGrimReaperess | 2006-07-12 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | it depends on who writes it and how its written cuz it suits some people and it doesnt suit others. which ever sounds better. |
| User | NoMartyr | 2006-07-08 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | Just kidding. There are a lot of exceptional writers here. That, and I suck. |
| User | NoMartyr | 2006-07-08 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | Was that a poem on here? Not to sound like an ego-trip, but I haven’t found too many people’s poems on here that I liked. Does anybody have any good shit? |
| User | DavidHirt | 2006-07-08 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | Amanda, the point is, as Jimmy puts on the opening page, this is a site for critique. If people just want their poetry read and gushed over, the should go to poets.com. Getting your spelling fixed only helps make the poem better and most writers want to know that they made that mistake. |
| User | Logic | 2006-07-06 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | Boring. |
| User | Amanda Lynn | 2006-03-22 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | i agree with the spelling but some of the best poems i have read didnt have a single period and used broken english. I think if you limit yourself to proper writings your missing alot. |
| User | bitterlily | 2006-03-18 | | | Subject | grammar and spelling | | Message | Personally, I can’t read something that is written with poor grammar and poor spelling and take the author seriously. If they don’t care enough and/or are too stupid to write a sentence according to the simplest of conventions, then there is absolutely no reason why I should invest my time in reading it. Need an example? Read the first post here. |
| User | Rokhal | 2006-03-16 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | I’m very good at spotting bad grammar. (It’s a gift . . . and a curse.) So I inflict my mastery on lesser mortals. Quite the power trip.
Sometimes I critique for rhyme use and meter, which is more labor-intensive, and sometimes I do a little analysis of the fuzzy stuff, or nag them about how boring their word-choices are. Just a bundle of fun! |
| User | rounin | 2006-03-14 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | I’m one of those grammar nazis, but I try not to overdo it. Of course it may be (and usually is) a typo. On the other hand, people who put so much effort into takng every letr out of a wrd that they pssbly can is another story. This probably wasn’t what you’re talking about but I just wanted to point out that that just seems so sloppy and lazy and it isn’t fun to read. But those people who "blast" others for their typos, I would guess, are just letting them know in case they wanted to fix it, or something like that... it just makes it look more clean cut I think. It isn’t a bash on the poem itself, or even the author. |
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