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Can someone with some literary grounding/understanding analyse my poem?
I have written this poem in the hope of entering it for the SDP national poetry competition. I am happy with it, but I would like the opinions of some other people before I produce a final draft. In particular, I would like for some analyses, just to show whether I have succeeded in portraying what I feel to be a very specific message in the poem strongly enough for others to find it, and some opinions as to whether this really is a piece that could really be considered a piece of "literature". Thank you all in advance, and wish me luck for the competition,
Stephen
the poem is below:
The saddest thing I have ever drawn
The saddest thing I have ever drawn
Not well, not perfect
But an effort to the furthest reach
Of my shaking hands
And blurry eyes
A wedding dress in red and
White? Sweet rebellion,
Forever trapped in a childlike innocence
Never the stain'd white but still
A softening beauty, sun hot embers cooling to black
To stone
To the tall proud forever rock
Immaculate
Uncrying
Unmoving
Smooth drifts of forever like you dancing in my brain
Ethereal and wan amongst
Firing neurons, and dying cells
Slowly growing in me
Emptiness in one dull section in the back corner ,
My brain already tensing round the pulsing mass
Ready to push in and fill the gap
Like the corner of my world
A ten second walk down around
And so my head is my world
And there will be the gap
And the earth will be cold and bleak
And static; refusing to press into
The ugly black hole
and make you never were
A void of dirty broken was, and could have been.
A hole in the shape
Of silly dancing
And union
And Rich heavy folds of a time that would never be
Draped around a faceless air
The saddest thing
I have ever drawn
A dress
In red
And white
4 Answers
- joyLv 59 years agoFavorite Answer
Stephen.............Please don't be too disappointed if you don't win in the
competition. This poem sounds like you are straining too hard. Can you
edit it, maybe simplifying it a little by developing the red and white a little more?
It's also slightly wearing to read it without stanzas. I know you went for the effect,
but it's too complex to work. The stanzas would help the theme to be processed.
Good luck, whatever you decide.
- vaghnLv 45 years ago
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- joe dLv 59 years ago
I'm an AP English student, so I've had a little practice analyzing literature, but not too much.
This is beautifully written. You know what you're doing.
My analysis... You (your character) were going to marry a woman, but she either died or left you. You are angry, and depressed, and life seems frivolous to you.
Good job.