Forum: Writers


Subject: "Vision". Thoughts appreciated

Ianfe opened this issue on Nov 25, 2003 ยท 7 posts


Crescent posted Sat, 29 November 2003 at 10:51 PM

I really like the pieces, but I'm confused by the poem as a whole. I'm rather literal when it comes to poetry: I feel like there's a story wrapped inside this poem, but I can't quite make out the plot. My guess is that the poem deals with love and sex, but then why are the waves a bad thing, when you often hear the phrase "waves of pleasure?" (Yes, there's also "waves of pain" but I'm not seeing a reason to read that into the poem.) I wouldn't be surprised if I'm completely misreading the poem or trying to force more into it than you intended. I'm not trying to say that you need to dumb it down, but make you aware that the poem not not be as clear in meaning as you intended. (Or that you have at least one reader who's thick as a brick.) ;-) Cheers!