Monday, August 15, 2011

Poem, "Dreams" read! if you so choose?

I really like the idea and the sentiments but there are way too many adjectives and some of them are poorly chosen. Almost every noun has an adjective attached to it - chilly, frosty, warm - so it just starts to sound repetitive. Use adjectives sparingly! Also, some of the adjective choices seem really off. For example, "petty and prevalent pain" is really bad alliteration - it sounds like you used those two adjectives with pain just for the sake of having alliteration so that sections sounds really forced and awkward. I get what you mean by petty, but prevalent isn't really a great word choice there - prevalent sounds best in formal, academic writing and incorporating it into casual poetry like this sounds pretentious and like you don't really know what it means. Hope I'm not being too critical - it really is quite lovely, just needs a bit of editing and tinkering with word choice. Good luck!!

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