Tuesday Night Scribblers

Monday, September 25, 2006

Review for Trenise

The poem "Ode to Shelby" had a clever subject that I am sure many can relate to a crappy car.
"You’re more in the shop then on the street going by" is the line that I think most people in this situation could relate to the most. While I believe the subject of the poem is unique, I think the approach is very calculated. Most of the rhyming to me seems forced and very predictable, I think a freer set up to the poem would allow you to get more of your thoughts across without having to fit the rhyme scheme. "But you have sentimental value that the others lag" - Something about the word "lag" bothered me, I feel you could have selected a better word to get this point across, a very important one at that, but were held back by the rhyme scheme once again.

In "My Fury" you describe another relaitable subject, hurt caused by another person. A lot of your lines convey the situation very well esp. "I can not, will not forgive thee
You took my kindness for weakness and took advantage of me" those lines stuck with me the most. I believe a lot of this poem becomes lost in translation though. While I understand typos happen (and I'm pretty sure that there are some within this review), I feel that words such as "fury" and "took" were very important in this poem but when spell checked they turned into "furry" and "token" for whatever reason, and they mean completely different things. Also I was confused by the line "I am green with envy from the things you did to me", it lead me to believe you are jealous of the things done to you.

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