Bleed For Me

The poem that I have chosen to critique is my own. I found all of the poems in the package to be well written and very creative. However, I put a lot of work into mine and still felt it needed revisions. The first item that needs to be corrected is the poems use of meter. After learning about meter in class, my poem doesn’t adhere to any of the forms of meter discussed. Incorporating iamb, trochee, anapest and other forms of meter would make the poem flow better. I believe that the use of imagery is excellent. Every time I read a stanza images of cold and bleakness run through my mind.
The words used to describe the images of winter and cold are good. However, as opposed to always focusing on negative imagery such as “The landscape becomes engulfed in eternal frost, Rivers of fear run cold.” The positive aspects of winter could have been used to create a dual image. The season of winter can be discussed at great lengths in terms of the images it creates, to only...