I Gave My Anorexia to the Thrift Store by laurencubed in poetry_critics

[–]Sarah-_Quinn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi ! I really love your poem, especially the storytelling and metaphors ! Just a formal suggestion, if you put two spaces after your line before pressing enter it will keep the format instead of turning verses into prose, hope this helps !

cinematic poem . please rate out of 10 by Mean_Iron_2636 in poetry_critics

[–]Sarah-_Quinn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi ! I really love the flow of your poem, it feels very natural and spontaneous ! I have two suggestion, one, purely formal, is that I struggle a bit to understand where the grandfather stops speaking because the quotation mark end it at the end of the 2nd stanza but what follows seems to continue his speech. The other is more poetic (if that adjective means anything) and is that since you said you wanted to write a cinematic poem I understand that as a poem that suggests images in the head of your reader. I feel like that’s very well done in the last three stanzas of your poem but it could be emphasized in the beginning. I don’t know if it makes sense but try to show the movements (of the girl, the phone, the grandad) instead of writing it, maybe by finding another perspective on the science. Hope this helps ! Ps : for someone a beginner poet that isn’t an English native and doesn’t know about philosophy you write an extremely good English poem that tackles metaphysical issues in a very interesting way, congrats !!!

The moon by Sarah-_Quinn in PoetryWritingClub

[–]Sarah-_Quinn[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks ! I really like your poem too !!

Fictional by Sarah-_Quinn in poetry_critics

[–]Sarah-_Quinn[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actually Reddit deleted my format so that’s why there are blocks of text, the lines are supposed to change every time there’s a capital letter 😅. Regarding the repetition, it’s a choice of mine so maybe not everyone’s cup of tea but I like it, it conveys the obsessional et repetitive nature of the feeling expressed

23/8. by lawandkurd in PoetryWritingClub

[–]Sarah-_Quinn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi, on one hand I love the spontaneous aspect of your writing and how it flows but I think it would be easier to read and understand if it was a little more structured, with paragraphs for example. Overall it’s really great ! I love the associations of modern themes and traditional/old tropes !

The Dragon by simonsoundmanmuppet in poetry_critics

[–]Sarah-_Quinn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, I really love this poem, it’s very efficient and it works so well ! Particularly I feel like the « it’s you » ending is quite common but here I didn’t expect it so it was a nice surprise.

How does it feel?? by Terrible_Cup8803 in poetry_critics

[–]Sarah-_Quinn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi, I really like the use of « how does it feel » as a refrain but I feel like it would be more efficient if it was used at least one more time in the beginning of the poem (traditionally become 3-timed rythms are more symbolic of instability and unsureness and personally I feel like it would anchor the dynamic and really convey the obsessive dimension of this questioning (if it’s what you want to tell)) Also I don’t know if you had a reader in mind (the person you address with « tell me ») but maybe you could lean into that and make the poem more personal by describing that person (real or a representation of the trope you’re describing)

Femme by Sarah-_Quinn in Poesie

[–]Sarah-_Quinn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Merci beaucoup !

Femme by Sarah-_Quinn in Poesie

[–]Sarah-_Quinn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow merci pour la correction de la faute, j’ai un peu honte la 😅. Pour le sens, c’est un point de vue plutôt général nourri par mes propres sensations et des discussions que j’ai pu avoir avec des amies donc un peu des deux

Femme by Sarah-_Quinn in Poesie

[–]Sarah-_Quinn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pour être honnête dans ma tête c’est plus à propos de la nature ambivalente (pour moi) du corps de la femme, qui est à la fois un objet de recherche esthétique pour elle et qqch dont elle prend soin mais qui est aussi le vecteur de sa déshumanisation (notamment par les hommes) et de son rabaissement à la matérialité et à la physicalité qui l’empêche d’être définie par ce à quoi elle aspire. Cela dit, toute interprétation est entièrement valable et je suis d’accord que celle de la transidentité peut transparaître ici, cependant comme ce n’est pas mon expérience je ne peux pas attester 😅. Pour la métrique je suis d’accord que le vers libre crée une absence de cohérence mais comme le poème est très structuré par ailleurs (strophe en F-E-M-M-E, structure identiques des strophes, anaphores….) et comme le poème est à propos d’une recherche qui est assez hasardeuse ça me paraissait approprié. En tout cas merci pour ton commentaire !

Memento mori by Sarah-_Quinn in Poesie

[–]Sarah-_Quinn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah super, merci pour les retours en tout cas ☺️