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Poetry
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A community to celebrate published and OC works of poetry.
Welcome to !poetry
Guidelines & Community Rules
In addition to the general rules of lemmy.world:
Published Poetry
1a: Poetry posts should include the title and the author, when the author is known.
O.C. Poetry
2a: Sharing original poetry is encouraged, but it must be preceded by the tag "[OC]."
2b: If an [OC] post is requesting feedback, it should also follow with the "[FB]" tag. It would look like the following example:
[OC] [FB] Nothing Gold Can Stay
Feedback
All feedback should be given in good faith.
3a: All [FB] requests should be met with comments constructive in nature. It is okay to dislike parts of a poem, but make sure to explain why you feel that way.
3b: Feedback does not need to be extraordinary in nature. Simply expressing how a work makes you feel is often enough.
3c: Use the honor system. When you receive good feedback, return it in kind to another author. Everyone appreciates knowing their work is being read and appreciated.
As this community develops, these guidelines may be adjusted.
Formatting Help
Work in progress
To create a line break, use two spaces at the end of a line.
To create empty space, type .
Use four of these at the beginning of a line to create a standard indent.
UPDATE:
Some methods of access do not format markdown correctly. I am currently testing various apps and web interfaces to see what does and does not retain formatting.
In the interim, it is encouraged to post text poetry as you normally would, but to include a link at the beginning or end of the post with access to a website or image that retains the formatting as intended.
Other Poetry Communities
Poetry lovers unite! In the style of the fediverse, multiple poetry communities have arisen, and will continue to rise. I will try to keep a list here of communities across instances that are worth checking out!
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I seriously don’t understand poetry.
I think the implication here is that she’s reinforcing to the little girl the idea that the man chooses whether or not something as life-changing as marriage can/will occur, and that a woman is helpless to surrender to his choosing.
Based on the title, the author likely regrets reinforcing these gender norms.
I get what it’s about. I just don’t get that it’s poetry.
That's ridiculous. Marriage requires consent. She consents, which means it's up to him. Older women should be teaching little girls that marriage requires consent from both parties, that's a good lesson.
True but who is it that usually proposes? There's no reason why a woman couldn't propose to a guy, but many things would have one believe otherwise and that a woman must wait for a man to ask them.
If she proposes to him, it's still up to him.
Re-read the poem. The author is trying to marry the uncle's sibling. They refer to the young girl as "your niece," indicating that when said niece asks if the author loves the person the poem is addressing, that person isn't the uncle. It is, in fact, the sibling of the uncle.
In this particular case, as I don't know anything else about the author, they reinforced the idea that conservative sexist, conservative racist, conservative classist, or conservative religious ideas are more influential to the outcomes of an individual's life, than the individuals that are involved. IE they reinforced the idea that the good of the many outweighs the good of the one.
"You" has a niece, the girl in the poem. The girl in the poem has an uncle, "you". The author wants to marry the uncle, who is "you"
If you tell a child that something they want to happen is up to someone else, that child will spend the next month repeating the exact same questions in an effort to convince that adult to do the thing the child wants to happen.
The author sicced the child on the child's uncle, leaving the uncle with no peace for at least the next whole afternoon visit with the child.
That’s pretty interesting, the child-psychology perspective hadn’t occurred to me. Nice!
Aww. Hopefully you like what I post.
I had to come back to this comment because it was rattling around in my head. I LOVE this community and what you post. Even if I don’t feel like I always “get” all of it, it 90% of the time makes me think about things, words, expression, emotions and everything mentioned a little differently. A+ contributions.
That's great!
The biggest puzzling thing for me is that I like music and lyrics but really dislike poetry