Saturday, November 20, 2010
Story/Conflict
I have found that my poetry is very amateur. It is all off the cuff emotions, but there is a very limited story/conflict there. I prefer to write about observations, very simple small poems, but even within some of the shortest poems there is a sort of conflict. For example Ezra Pound's poem
IN A STATION OF THE METRO
The apparition of these faces in the crowd ;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
I have found that the story or conflict is the driving point of the poem, built with emotion and imagery, not the other way around.
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That's interesting that you say that because I feel like my poetry is like the opposite way around. I suck at using first person observations in my poetry they always sound stupid when I read them over. Somehow I always start with the story though, and have to work on trying to capture the emotion and detail.
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