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Knerd
I put the K in "Misspelling"
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09-14-2007, 12:41 AM
Overused Poetic Cliches
I'm a frequent visitor of poetry forums around these Wide Webs, and in my time I've seen a number of things that annoy me to no end. One of them is overused poetic cliches.
We all know what this means - Heart break, love, depression, death. It's either subjected to the idea of "I'm so happy and in love that everything is perfect right now" or "I hate everything no one understands me the world is horrible." Although these basic themes are enough to make readers cringe, it's the "metaphors" and descriptions that really make me want to hurl.
One of these is invisibility. It's the idea that no one appreciates you, understands you, sees you, or reacts to you in any way. It's the idea that you stand in front of a crowd screaming, and no one turns. I see this much too often. It's mostly used by teenagers who don't appreciate the life they have been given, or who have suffered the first blow of their lives. I do believe that their emotion is sincere, but they are unable to express themselves without resorted to horrible typecasts. Rather than putting their feelings straight into their writing, they try too hard to create "real poetry" and thereby make it a cookie-cut version of everything else out there. The best (and worst) way to describe this is the "emo" trend. Not the true sense of emo, but rather the stereotypical one. Another bad cliche is that of mirrors. Breaking mirrors, having no reflection, or finally seeing your true self in one. It has become such a common symbol that all originality has been lost.
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