You want to know about me? Hmmm, this should be fun.
I'm a Sixth Form student from Cambridgeshire for those interested, I'm planning to go on and do Classics at University. I'm taking English Lit A Level, love reading (Poetry and Prose) but really don't read as much as I should. This is bad as you can't write poetry and prose if you don't read it.
My poetry is... very variable, it all just depends on what inspiration chooses to strike me. That said, I love language, rhythm, and rhyme, and feel that while poetry can be used to make important points or statements, the most important point is that it is expressed well. Poems that make amazing philosophical points or convey excellent emotion, still lack something if they don't sound good. Even if you don't understand a poem, you should be able to go "This is cool" and work it out later.
In my opinion anyway.
I've written poetry all my life - most of it being awful on account of me writing it aged 7 - but just recently I've been writing a lot more and have what I now consider to be some acceptable material. Of course, I'm sure I'll hate it in a year or so.
I'll probably add to this sometime. Ciao.
on Dec 03 2005 04:36 PM
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