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Re: Open Up [edit]
I have to say I like it. Phorcys may have a point in that the waking-up-in-a-torture-room narrative is a little overdone, but it was well-written enough to overcome that. I ...
Oct 22, 2007 -
Re: Dawn to Dusk
I only have to say that one cannot compare words to women in makeup and call it even. True, if he tacked a meaning onto his words they would be ...
Oct 21, 2007 -
Re: Dawn to Dusk
While still rough, perhaps this is a decent alternative. Also, not all poetry is meant to instruct Colleen, and beauty without meaning is beauty nonetheless. What is the point? I'm ...
Oct 21, 2007 -
Re: Dumbledore = Gay
xhalcyonx128 - Oh, I recognize the loads of religious allusion in HP. I was just saying she didn't go into addressing religious conflicts in the books. There are no fights ...
Oct 21, 2007 -
Re: Love is a Cliche
Ahhh LizzyG; Cliches exist because they are so very relate-able to the human being ^.^ Thus while your poem may be a cliche it is merely because it selects and ...
Oct 21, 2007 -
Re: Post your Pumpkins
Ooh, this is fun. I can get extra credit in AP Physics by carving a physics pumpkin, so maybe I'll put it up here!
Oct 21, 2007 -
Re: Stevie Wonder
This is a decent essay. It flows well while efficiently disclosing information. Your main problems are mainly in syntax and grammar and all that--I'm just going to correct them here. ...
Oct 20, 2007 -
Re: Dawn to Dusk
I'm not really sure what to think of it, Cameron. I enjoyed the imagery, but as far as I can tell, this poem has little or no point. It displays ...
Oct 20, 2007 -
Re: Dumbledore = Gay
I think it's perfectly legitimate that Rowling doesn't reveal Dumbledore's sexuality in the books. We've all probably noticed that she carefully avoids controversial modern issues like religion (thoug
Oct 20, 2007 -
Re: Digital photographs, fresh off the memory card.
Thanks for all the comments, guys. Someone asked what kind of camera I have...it's a Canon Digital Rebel 300D, the original Rebel. It's a cheaper, more accessible digital SLR. When ...
Oct 20, 2007 -
Re: Love is a Cliche
Love is cliche....but so is this poem. Only the ending really struck me as something interesting. I think this has the potential to be much improved, though; this poem should ...
Oct 20, 2007 -
Re: The Coward
Wow, Brad went on a critiquing binge today! I'd have to agree with him. I think this topic could be pulled off, but you need a little more practice. It's ...
Oct 20, 2007 -
Re: Wide Awake in a Dream
I rather enjoyed it. It made me think of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself", especially III. I disagree with Brad's comment on the speaker's confusion--I think that, for the mots ...
Oct 20, 2007 -
Re: Is your goal to get published?
Don't we all? I'm not hoping to put the next great American novel out goal is to get a few of my poems into literary magazines and the like, which ...
Oct 19, 2007 -
Re: Be obscure clearly. ~E.B. White
I, too, am a high school junior who's an editor of the literary magazine. LITMAGS FOR LIFE! Anyway. Welcome to YWS, pm me if you have any questions, and I ...
Oct 19, 2007
