Alicia,
I need advice. I don't know if I should speak up about what I think of this poem, or should I shut up. Let me give an example; I don't think the poem is very good at all, and is quite mediocre, and of course everyone is entitled to thier opinion, but I could elaborate exactly why word for word why this poem by Justice fails entirely to achieve any level of interest for me. Often, when I do speak up, I hear a clamor for me to sit down. Deconstructing a poem to the utmost integrity is what interests me, and over the years I've learned to be quiet because so few seem interested.
I see what the poem offers as a mood, without saying a thing, a kind of abstract sketch. But isn't there more?
There must be more. I see poets write good snippets now and then, then the writer sort of falls off the wagon into the mud, probably for lack of encouragement.
If anyone replies I will do a deconstruction on this poem and show what I mean, how it is almost as if effort is taken to accomplish mediocrity as a goal.
Just my opinion.
TJ
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