Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Un-fulfilled
Writing poetry, to me, has always been about the expression of my feelings. I've taken classes in high school, and now in college, that have tuned the direction of my thoughts, but it always comes back to the same principle. I write about the things that come to my mind, the things that affect my life. I've tried writing about subjects that don't involve me; subjects that are basically pointless, but I always come back to the same problem. If I don't have a feeling for the subject nothing will come out. I realize now that I just have no inspiration for the subject if it does not affect me in any way. I have a strong emotional personality. That part of me doesn't come out unless I write about it. Sometimes it comes out as metaphors, sometimes in rhyme. The point is that unless I have a strong hold on the meaning of what is being written by pen, it will only come out as useless scramblings of student. I don't like that. I wonder if anyone feels the same way. I can't write unless by body, my mind tells me I can. It cannot be an order, it has to be felt.
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i completely agree! i absolutely hate when i'm told i have to write about a certain topic that has nothing to do with me. i have no take on the topic so how would you like me to write something meaningful about it? i'd much rather write freely as i have whatever emotion or feeling it is. my work is always much better if i write from experience or if i'm passionate about something. that's why i enjoy our crw class that we're in now because we get to write about anything we want. i mean yeah, sometimes we have topics, but we're able to put our life into those topics instead of having a set thing to write about. it's much better that way
ReplyDeleteI definitely have the same problem. It's like writing essays for class that you have no interest in. You are struggling to find the words until you just get so frustrated and BS the whole thing. I feel if we got topics we enjoyed for half of the essay writing we had to do for classes we would do much better. If i'm interested and passionate about it I usually won't be able to stop writing and before I know it I have a 5 page essay without really having to stop and think about it. That's why I love creative writing so much, because it's our minds, our thoughts and we won't be criticized for giving "wrong" information.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with you. Writing about some obscure thing is difficult if there is no feeling there. But why does anybody have to write about something that is not part of their lives? One of the poets I am doing for my final project writes all of his poetry about everyday things like what he did people he knows and even other poets. I also have never written a poem about something that I have no interest in. I don't see a point in doing that. I agree, poetry is about expression of the writers' feelings. So, as a writer, why bother with things that you have no feeling about.
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