A young person wrote this poem and asked for my detailed feedback. Does anyone else want to try, too?
The poem:
If ever it rains
I must look out the window
I whisper but with no sound
My eyes awaits for your gentle touch
It's gentle, its pure, tell me why I feel so secure
Every time I feel embraced
You bring me out I touch your face
You bring me hope
You bring me love
I hope one day we will both
be loved
It's a whisper,
It's my sound
I hunger for you
Hello
your that person I can't live without
My analysis:
If ever it rains
- okay, but weak line, saved by the lilt of the transposition of it ever.
I must look out the window
I whisper but with no sound - good physical description.
My eyes awaits for your gentle touch - subtle synethesia
It's gentle, its pure, tell me why I feel so secure -reads well
Every time I feel embraced - First in a series of vague lines
You bring me out I touch your face
-You bring me out -comma- I touch your face the line reads terribly without it.
You bring me hope -okay but vague, not eye touching or whatever
You bring me love -okay but vague
I hope one day we will both -vagueness is starting to feel cliched
be loved
It's a whisper, - reworks silent whisper, good
It's my sound -ditto
I hunger for you - cliche
Hello - Lionel Richie?
your that person I can't live without
-anticlimactic generic romantic hyperbole.
Anyone agree, disagree? Thoughts/Comments?
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