tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1948420587779787298.post472610292527429301..comments2023-06-16T05:25:55.741-07:00Comments on Elliptica: Plain LanguageLynethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06357023675142716573noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1948420587779787298.post-12749700068557588512008-09-04T04:13:00.000-07:002008-09-04T04:13:00.000-07:00I'm always glad when people say they like my poems...I'm always glad when people say they like my poems. I don't write them to be liked. I write them to play with words and to express things. So when people say they like them it always feels like an unexpected bonus. Besides, it means you've bothered to read it and have an opinion on it. I'm honoured.<BR/><BR/>To be honest, I quite like it, too :-)Lynethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06357023675142716573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1948420587779787298.post-88506518413022081512008-09-03T23:30:00.000-07:002008-09-03T23:30:00.000-07:00I admit I'm a bit of a poetry philistine, but biza...I admit I'm a bit of a poetry philistine, but bizarrely I quite like this (despite what you say). Perhaps it's just that I feel it's not going as far over my head as most poetry.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1948420587779787298.post-55391235390614728442008-09-03T05:01:00.000-07:002008-09-03T05:01:00.000-07:00I think the thing that amuses me about this sonnet...I think the thing that amuses me about this sonnet (I shall not call it a <I>poem</I>) is the utter shapelessness of the first eight lines. You barely notice the rhyme and the metre has no backbone (and the new sentence in the fourth line is awful -- but interestingly so).<BR/><BR/>It goes a bit more standard and lively and colourful in the last six lines, of course.Lynethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06357023675142716573noreply@blogger.com