Post by Robin on Mar 8, 2006 14:01:56 GMT -8
I'm not very enthusiastic about this piece. I felt that it was pretty juvenile, and the theme itself wasn't very original.
You can write about unoriginal themes, but you have to present them in more original ways. Maturing your vocabulary could help some, and perhaps staying away from rhyming poems for awhile. I used to write all rhyming poems, but it was after I started in on free verse that my skills really developed. Also, it's a lot harder to make a rhyming poem sound mature and/or refined than a non-rhyming poem.
You can write about unoriginal themes, but you have to present them in more original ways. Maturing your vocabulary could help some, and perhaps staying away from rhyming poems for awhile. I used to write all rhyming poems, but it was after I started in on free verse that my skills really developed. Also, it's a lot harder to make a rhyming poem sound mature and/or refined than a non-rhyming poem.
