Friday, January 3, 2003

A Letter To My Aunt Comments

Rating: 2.9

A Letter To My Aunt Discussing The Correct Approach To Modern Poetry


To you, my aunt, who would explore
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Dylan Thomas
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Parritosh Dhoot 06 June 2022

Write comment without space whatever even this website but oh so lovely what can i do just created this dumb account all a broke man can afford but shall ask parents to buy hat for finally so cringy but fooling people with love is all it takes

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Parritosh Dhoot 06 June 2022

Writing comments,

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Aidan Malik 23 June 2020

noice i like it k keep it up ur good at dis

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Walterrean Salley 29 November 2016

**Really makes ya think.

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Soumita Sarkar 04 January 2016

My..my..what a poem telling what modern poetry n verse is not and what it has...Bravo! ! !

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Susan Williams 23 December 2015

What a delightful wry verse that sets me to chuckling at his rapier wit

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Panmelys Panmelys 30 January 2015

It's in answer to her nagging, and saying, but no-one understands your poems, at least mine are understood begging him to send them in to his publisher. Panmelys It's obviously not meant as a great poem, but to show what many poets think are good poems. So I've rated it in the sense of humor and dexterity, the very fact of being able to write mediocre poetry is a work of are.

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Brian Jani 26 April 2014

Awesome I like this poem, check mine oit

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Heather Wilkins 27 September 2013

excellent verse. the last stanza nice finish

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The 4am Poet Worm 01 June 2010

outstanding i love a verse that rhymes.....

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Resten Swondo 01 January 2010

Thomas takes the mickey with this one so blatantly that one is hard pressed to find a wordsmith with more rancour for the craft of fellow poets unless they conform to some predetermined standard of which Thomas approves. Nonetheless, a fitting end in this poem suggests to me that this is where most contemporary poetry belongs - inspiring of some fireborne thoughts.

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Mandara Pookal 21 November 2009

Very beautifully rendered work. mandara

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Christy Oreilly 07 April 2005

who thinks she is poet and then tells her to be more outright with her thouths even if she was he knows the paper sheets she writes her poems? on will warm him when he throws them on the the flames on the fire.

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Shaun Cronick 28 April 2020

What are trying to say? She? ? ?

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