#poetry critic

[enyasaints]

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May 24, 2024

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May 26, 2024

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[percymawce-arts]

Let’s say, theoretically, that I made a malevolent college AU.

(I haven’t done this, of course, this is all completely hypothetical.)

Let’s also say, theoretically, John is an Eng major and in one of his writing classes there’s a new student.

Theoretically.

I thought it might look like this

^ the theoretical AU in question

#sorry but john is a poet deep down and i will not be accepting criticism at this time #the way he describes things to arthur???? #poetry #faroe does exist but arthur never had to marry bella because #i said so #john’s roommate is noel #he’s reading charlottes web because he never did as a child #sheltered boy discovering the wonders of humanity for the first time #malevolent podcast #malevolent #arthur lester #john doe malevolent #oscar malevolent #detective noel #college au #theoretically

[hairtusk]

Hole Theory, Thomasin Frances (15/10/2022)

#hi everyone this is my latest poem!! #i feel....very unsure about it #like #i'm not sure if it actually works as a poem #so any feedback / criticism / advice would be greatly appreciated !! #please please let me know what you think #mine #my poetry

[revengebian]

i awoke to find womanhood asleep in my bed:

a wet and red haired dog. 

i kicked her off.

she yipped and and snipped and wouldn't stop.

womanhood followed me to and from school, and the air of wet dog hair was pungent and new. i felt eyes on me, more and more. in class, womanhood wagged her tail by the door. oh, i hated her for it. this grotesquely loyal dog knew no commands. womanhood, i couldn't stand.

womanhood was a beast that i had to wrestle, a wolf i had to cage. staring at the blood on my thighs, i felt an ancient animal rage. i didn't ask own you, i told her, and i won't throw my bones to you, chew on adam's rib--not mine! womanhood, that old bitch whined.

i muzzled her, i bound my breasts; take that, you pest.

i fought my mom on who knew best; womanhood hid behind her with her tail between her legs. 

oh, how i hated her hated her hated her. and yet i was of her nature. 

womanhood was wound i had to stitch, womanhood was a red-hot itch. and i could not get rid of it, this painfully loyal thing.

womanhood, how you'd continued to howl: outside my door, a baleful sound. 

and i loved you when i couldn't see you: head against another girls shoulder, sharing secrets, voices low. dancing with them, arm in arm, laughing in our howling song. only with men around did womanhood seem so unsightly, but all alone or with my friends her eyes seemed to burn brightly...and as did mine, i realized. the dog followed me home, i felt her sleeping in my bones. i laid awake and heard the wolves howl: i was not alone.

goddesses, artemis, not and nut, your red haired dog sleeps on my bed. i thank you in kisses to the moon above. womanhood is something that i've learned to love.

#a poem on my own experience with growing up and being a girl #prose #poem #radical feminism #radical feminist #radical feminist safe #feminism #radical feminists do interact #gender criticism #radblr #gender critical #terfblr #radical feminist community #feminist poetry

[even-fools-are-right-sometimes]

@even-fools-are-right-sometimes // this is how i love you, yukla // @iamcon-fu-sion // Françoise Sagen, Bonjour Tristesse // The Abduction of Persephone, Gian Lorenzo Bernini // History student falls in love with astrophysics student, @boykeats // Snowbound, objectlesson // @even-fools-are-right-sometimes // Marathon, Louise Glück

(plus a bonus from @dogmotif)

#ive been sitting on this idea for ages #web weaving #webweave #webweaving #critical role #shadowgast #man from uncle #napollya #tmfu #poetry #love

[loverboybreakdowns]

poem

#rambling #my poetry #original poetry #poetry #my poem #original poem #constructive criticism welcome btw :) #also click for quality btw

[idliketobeatree]

#good omens #ineffable husbands #good omens poem #good omens poetry #supreme archangel aziraphale #crowley #aziraphale #good omens s2 #post s2 #good omens s3 #good omens season 3 #ineffable divorce #ineffable spouses #aziraphale x crowley #go2 #original poem #marcela writes #my own tag still scares me. i am so shy about writing! but i also really wanted to post this so. closing my eyes and hitting send #i'm always happy to hear criticism btw i just need to calm down ahaha

[weepylucifer]

it's beautiful to picture the anodic dance club as like, the new hot spot for the young people of martinaise to hang out and all bond with each other and have all their different worldviews mingle and create new things... but lbr chances are half of those people are going to end up just not really liking anodic music. like, thanks for keeping the pale hole contained or whatever but this music blows

#posts by me #it's just a genre like any other tbh. it's gonna have fans it's gonna have haters #the speedfreaks: here is our radical new life-affirming jam #cindy: it's a bit trash innit can you get some garage punk bands to play here #the smoker: can we host an open mic night i have slam poetry i would like to share #piss and fuck: this is not voidcore enough #steban: i only listen to prog rock #ulixes: and revolutionary folk anthems #andre and noid: everyone's a fucking critic huh #egghead: [sad ant with bindle image]

[atopvisenyashill]

Thoughts on the Alysanne is Maegor's daughter AU? I feel like it has some interesting potential, and it vastly recontextualizes different parts of Jaehaehae (I do not like him sjsjsjs) and Alysanne's relationship (such as Jaehaehae's treatment of their daughters) but I wanna hear what you think about it!

I’ve touched on this a bit before but since you actually want to hear my thoughts, allow me to present to you my Jaehaerys Is The Goddamn Worst, And Alysanne Annoys Me Too: An Essay lmao but my answer is basically “yeah all of what you just said.”

I think it makes Alysanne much more palatable (to me) as a character because as she stands, she just fixates on forcing her daughters through these fucked up marriages at too young an age bc it traumatized her to be married and pregnant at 15 too but she’d never admit that being a willing participant in her own kidnapping by her brother-husband was the single worst thing that ever happened to her, and because Alysanne doesn’t want to admit it (and Jaehaerys would never see it as wrong or a mistake) F&B really shies away from delving into the fact that Alysanne is as deranged of a mother as Cersei is. So as she stands, she’s very flat to me because she’s presented very flatly and inconsistently. She’s so in love with Jaehaerys, she’s maritally raped by Jaehaerys, she’s a loving and doting mother, she forces her daughters into marriages when they’re the same too young age she was, she accuses her teenage girls of being scheming whores then gets angry when her husband accuses their teenage girls of being scheming whores, and worst of all we are just told “Maegelle tells them to make up so they do” so we don’t know why Alysanne gets over all of this. What is the point of riding a dragon when you never use that dragon to protect your daughters from unwanted teen marriages? We’re just not given a good enough justification for why her behavior is so weird and frustrating towards her daughters.

Make her Maegor’s daughter though…most of her behavior as an adult makes more sense. Like a worse version of Rhaenyra’s childhood almost - a father desperate for a son, but lowkey obsessed with his daughter, who makes all his hang ups about his parents the problems of every woman around him, except Maegor is out here blood sacrificing and torturing and starting wars and forcing babies on wives he discards quickly and brutally. Then here comes Jaehaerys on a white horse green dragon to save her from the horror her life has become, and he loves her so much he runs away with her even though Alyssa says they shouldn’t marry because people won’t like it. And they have beautiful children, and a beautiful marriage, and build a beautiful kingdom.

Then her pregnancies start getting dangerous. Gaemon, then Valerion, die. Alysanne thinks of the shriveled up mutants she called brothers, if Maegor’s taint has passed to her. Her perfect husband ignores her no, and forces Gael on her. Alysanne remembers that he said nothing to Rogar when Alyssa died, merely wept. Then her daughters start to die. Daella, Alyssa, Viserra, all within a few years. Then Jaehaerys makes Saera watch as he murders her boyfriend, calls her a whore, and says Alysanne cannot follow Saera to Lys. Alysanne thinks of Maegor torturing the Harroways over Alys’ presumed infidelity. Jaehaerys says he’s sorry, and her daughter badgers her into forgiving him, and she remembers how she helped Jaehaerys badger Alyssa into forgiving Rogar. Not two years later, Jaehaerys passes over Rhaenys. Alysanne thinks of how she was never enough for her father, how she felt so superior to Rhaena banished to Dragonstone and resented by Aerea, yet there she is dragging Gael away from court because she can’t stand to be with Jaehaerys. How her father was surrounded by dead women and dead babies and how Jaehaerys is surrounded by his own dead daughters, but surely she did the right thing, surely Maegor was worse, surely the realm is better off? Is he right to pass over Rhaenys? Is she enabling a man just as monstrous as her father? She will never decide, because Maegelle will guilt her about keeping Gael isolated at Dragonstone, and Alysanne will do as she’s told, just like Rhaena, and Alyssa, and Jeyne, Elinor, Ceryse, Alys, and Tyanna, just like every one of her daughters.

I do get why Alysanne is Alyssa & Aenys’ and not Maegor’s. The weird Targ babies, the line not descending from Visenya, Jaehaerys and Alysanne being held up as the perfect Targaryen couple specifically because they are brother and sister and dragon riders. I do even think canon Alysanne is likely traumatized by her time as a hostage on Dragonstone, and the ensuing war, and the trauma bond that caused with Jaehaerys, and it makes her idolize Jaehaerys, and then he isolates her at Dragonstone so he can swiftly and safely marry, groom, and knock her up. It’s not like,,,, a fun time, and it’s enough to make anyone crazy and weird about their daughters, but I think having her father be Maegor makes Alysanne herself much deeper because it gives her, as the most beloved Targaryen queen, a blood tie to the most hated Targaryen king, and a marriage to the most beloved Targaryen king. It fits better with a lot of the themes of the main series (again, imo) - forcing the spotlight on the outsiders to see how the affect the story from behind the scenes. The fall of Aegon’s sons, and The Long Reign, not told from the PoV or to serve the PoV of any of the kings or princes, but of the queen that tied them all together.

#anti jaehaerys i targaryen #f&b critical #fire and blood critical #asks #thesadboy #like he kind of does this with aenys & maegor by focusing on alyssa and rhaena and the wives and visenya. #but the Moment jaehaerys enters the scene he completely dominates it. the same way daemon and aemond do actually. #but this is not. it should not!! be their story. that’s not how the main series is told anyway!! #if f&b isn’t told by a dornish maester than it should have been written by a septa!!! #nuns wrote books!!!!! #rich noblewomen wrote novels and poetry!!!!!!! #GEORGE DO YOU READ WOMEN. I AM NO LONGER ASKING POLITELY. #i went to look for her mother and apparently this was just a mistake elio made and i’m even more depressed. i can’t believe i’m saying this #but elio damn your mind. #i bet he saw that and went ‘wait which one is her fucjing mother’ and george was like what in the goddamn hell are you talking about. #idk who would be her mother in this au. if we want to keep her within 3 ish years of jaehaerys it Has to be alys or ceryse. ceryse hightowe #is the hilarious and obvious choice. but don’t count out alys harroway second wife here either. #then there’s rhaena as her mother which with the canon timeline makes him 12 years older and isn’t THAT horrible let’s stop here actually.

[antigonick]

Poetry begins, I dare say, with a savage beating a drum in a jungle, and it retains that essential of percussion and rhythm.

—T. S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and The Use of Criticism

#lit #academia #t. s. eliot #poetry #the use of poetry and the use of criticism #soul

[thegirlhoodtheory]

girl! 9/12/23

#poetry #original poetry #spilled ink #writeblr #poems #writing #girlhood #can we be normal and utilize critical thinking for this one #i love women. remember this #theories.txt

[bitchofthewest]

they kiss now. these two? they are girlfriends and they kiss

*taps mic* can you hear me

#critical role #cr3 #imodna #imogen temult #laudna #idk man its just beautiful to me #the fact that they are girlfriends now and they kiss #yk #this is poetry to me

[littledemon55]

A poem titled: „Vivziepop, fuck you."

(Prepare to cringe?)

Vivzie, you, are quite the gal

Thinking that you’ve got it all

But being funny isn’t just

Saying things like: shit, bitch, fuck

Oh, you’re so progressive 

So open minded that it hurts

But there is this massive contradiction

Underneath that fiction

You’re spreading lies

And it should be no surprise 

That you’re a racist, fatphobe-

Why?

Mammon is ugly to you

Because he’s plus sized

You think making characters light grey makes them black

Are you kidding me, Miss?

Try to understand

The art created with your hands

The male characters you draw

Make them skinny, gay- not trans?

You give them trauma 

All the same

Father issues are to blame

Why make a character emotionally complex?

When all that matters to you 

Is the fact that they have sex

But, you might be saying, exceptions can be made

Alastor is AroAce, isn’t that just great?

To that I ask: A cannibal? A mass murderer?

Are you implying we are heartless

Or just clinically insane?

You can’t write good stories

Even if you tried

Because the reason for your failures

Is your very messed up mind

You’re rich and privileged

So you act like it too

And to that I say: Vivziepop, fuck you.

#fuck vivziepop #poetry #anti vivziepop #vivziepop critique #vivziepop critical #vivziepop criticism

[isagrimorie]

Bells Hells being Level 8s is the Point of the Story. And I love it for them, because they truly are Just People.

NPCs who found themselves in a much bigger storyline than they are.

That isn’t the Mighty Nein’s story, that isn’t even Vox Machina’s story. This is uniquely Bells Hells story.

I know Bells Hells aren’t the most popular or powerful or even the most ruthless of groups but that is what this story is about.

This is the Empire Strikes Back and Infinity Wars.

And there is some poetry there, especially since this is a party who are more or less agnostic towards gods, who knew they were outmatched and outnumbered but still Willingly sacrificing their lives anyway.

They’re the C Team in a world populated by A Teams.

And it’s possible this C Team might end up saving Exandria’s Legendary Heroes (VM and M9).

#i adore the poetry in this #critical role spoilers #cr spoilers #critical role #thinky thoughts #critical role c3 spoilers #bells hells #y’all might not love #bells hells but i do

[pemguims]

looking back

#pens #pittsburgh penguins #sidney crosby #sidgeno #kris letang #hockey poetry #nhl edit #will i ever upload smth completely 100% correct first time ? i think not #one of the little white boxes was like a pixel too small it was bothering me. anyway #miss ursual le guin your MIND #be normal about sidney crosby mission <- FAILED. MISSION CRITICAL. will be microwaving myself

[deadpanwalking]

hello!! do you have any recommendations for books or essays about becoming a better reader of poetry? I love the poems you post and esp love when your tags go into what you got out of it / understood from it, bc it’s always so much more than I was able to interpret on my own. and I want to become a better reader and learn how to really sit with a poem and get into all its layers but idk where to start.

I stand behind the recs in this post, but since you want to focus on poetry and poetics, in addition to William Empson's The Seven Types of Ambiguity and Helen Vendler's Poems, Poets, and Poetry, I'd also recommend Christopher Ricks' The Force of Poetry, I. A. Richards' Practical Criticism, and Jorge Luis Borges' The Craft of Verse. They are all beautifully written, by people whose love of the form transcends academia and becomes, at times, a kind of secular worship. I loved poetry before I fully understood language, back when it was just incomprehensible mouthwords my parents repeated to get me to sleep; I'd have loved poetry even if I never toiled a day in the hermeneutics mines, like my grandmother reciting Eugene Onegin after her dementia cleared everything else from the table—she wasn't sure what it meant, all she knew was that this was the nicest thing she had. Isn't that a kind of faith?

There are other good books about how to read poetry, but these were the ones that initiated me into a conspiracy of words, they taught me to be curious about why I liked a poem, how to take pleasure in its vivisection without worrying I'd kill that faith—like martyrs, good poems never fall apart when you open them up, they yield. If anything, the practice of explication has made me even more of a fanatic. I hope it does the same for you!

If there are poets you already like, I can get more specific about recs—I'm partial to modernist poetry, but that just means I like following breadcrumb trails of allusions to lots of different literary traditions and can tell you where the bodies, hatchets and/or treasures are buried.

#where's that bugs bunny meme that's like lord forgive me but it's time 2 go back to tha old me #but it's me about to reblog tha helen vendler emperor of ice cream explication #literary criticism #i read much of the night and go south in the winter #r-osehips #assbox #okay caveat the vendler and ricks books are definitely out of print but get them used—i promise they pay for themselves #in a hypothetical future where the economy crashes and poetry understanding becomes the most valuable form of currency