I like the theme of your poem a lot - friendship and reminiscing are huge parts of all of our lives and I think you captured it very well. I also thought the lines you chose to repeat worked very well especially "...a little after twelve/ ...a lot after twelve." The first two stanzas in general work very well because so much is parallel - every line has a partner with the same structure.
I think I can also see why you chose to break from the formula for the third stanza. It seems to emphasize the fact that it's a final stage and is altogether different from the first two. I think the lines break are done fairly well in the third stanza and punctuation is used extremely well to force emphasis on certain parts.
I do think the line breaks need some more punctuation at the end and less capitalization in the beginning in order to have them match the third stanza however. For example "Legs kicking and bouncing/ Against the prickly straw." Since this is one thought I would probably make the first word in that second line lower case and consider adding a comma to the end of the first line. There is a similar issue in the very first two lines of each of the first two stanzas.
In the third stanza I would also consider changing the second "sitting and talking" to something different because it seems too repetitious to use the same phrasing one line after another. And again there are issues of capitalization and punctuation in the third stanza.
As far as your imagery I think "beady" and "cloudy" are both great words for describing the difference in age and eras of their lives. "Half wrought smiles" is also very concrete but I think the third stanza could use more imagery in it in order to make it more similar to the rest of the poem.
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