Monday, October 31, 2011
Any suggestions?
I am having the hardest time trying to revise my poems. I have used both methods but neither are working the way I want them to. It seems like it is so easy for me to think of ways to revise an example poem in class but when it comes to my own work I am so judgmental and picky on what to change. I feel like when I try to change my poems with either method, my poem takes a whole different turn in direction. I could be talking about ice-cream, then when I revise it, it is all about the sun. I am not going to give up because practice makes perfect. I am wondering if anybody else is having difficulties revising their poems to keep them the same, but improved or if anybody has a secret to success!
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I find listening to certain music puts me in a weird place, and usually that place is the perfect place for making poems happen. There's this band called Explosions in the Sky, and it's completely instrumental music and very emotive. I suggest listening to them.
ReplyDeleteI feel like it's okay for the subject to change... although I get frustrated changing something I wrote. After I write something I feel like it's organic and fine the way it is, so I sympathize with what you're saying.
Try dissecting your lines. What do the words mean individually? What do you mean literally? How do you feel emotionally or metaphorically? Play with the words like no one's reading it and like no one ever has to.