How To Edit Poetry

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  • Опубликовано: 25 дек 2024

Комментарии • 24

  • @EmilyButler
    @EmilyButler  2 года назад

    My new poetry collection, GHOST HOUSE: amzn.to/3qLs5xM

  • @indiatastic
    @indiatastic Год назад +3

    I like that some of your advice boils down to: play. A lot of poets overestimate the emotional "purity" of the first draft.

  • @rievans57
    @rievans57 3 года назад +14

    Winter Meditation (a rewrite)
    upon waking don't forget to shake
    your dreams out along with
    the snow from your ears
    think of winter as having longer nights
    not shorter days
    laying down on the floor
    big as this house
    note your bloods internal wind
    circulating, stretching the dawn
    further into infinity
    the random reward can leave you empty
    strolling once again through a drift
    trying to release this hunger

  • @Fox_in_Thoughts
    @Fox_in_Thoughts Год назад +2

    Thank you for sharing your editing process. I used to think poems were never edited and if you edited them it would change the original meaning😅 Then when I realized people did edit their poems, I couldn't figure out how poems could be edited at all. Seeing your process gave me an idea how I could edit my own poems 😊

  • @authorgreene
    @authorgreene 3 года назад +12

    Impeccable advice. To write poetry well is tough. I wish more good poets were willing to talk about their craft and the evolution of their work through the editing process. Good luck with the collection. I'm preordering it as soon as the announcement is made!

  • @jadenwritesoninstax9945
    @jadenwritesoninstax9945 3 года назад +10

    your channel is literally my favourite on youtube it’s insane how quality your videos are!!!

    • @EmilyButler
      @EmilyButler  3 года назад +1

      Thank you, that means a lot to me :)

  • @betweenearthandsky4091
    @betweenearthandsky4091 3 месяца назад

    I think its an interesting video, but there's also something about keeping the raw, unaltered inspiration of the moment. Poems have something sacred for me when they are received as inspiration, and I feel often coming back to revise them with a rational approach can actually alter its original essence and transmission.

  • @BirdsNThings
    @BirdsNThings 2 года назад

    I love the video, thoughtfully put together, nicely edited. Thank you.

  • @saturnn77
    @saturnn77 3 года назад +5

    sail on your blood's eternal wind... Don't use feeling twice...

  • @jazzforce1
    @jazzforce1 7 месяцев назад

    It helps to have talent!

  • @GrannyReplica
    @GrannyReplica Год назад +1

    Yes, editing is such an important, often painful process. Depression inducing, in my case.
    I don't fully agree with the notion of making the last line the most powerful. Not all poems look back at the experience when it's already been concluded, but instead some may start the journey with the speaker when the ending and conclusions are yet unknown. In which case an ending with a bang might undermine the ongoing-ness of the narrative/point.

  • @betweenearthandsky4091
    @betweenearthandsky4091 3 месяца назад

    I liked your poem at 7:00 :)

    • @betweenearthandsky4091
      @betweenearthandsky4091 3 месяца назад

      Its a wonderful idea to have these poetic musings intertwined with meditations. Reminds me of a blend of Haiku, contemporary creative writing and zen. Somewhere at a crossroads. A balcony from which to gaze passersby stream.

  • @uncatila
    @uncatila Год назад

    Great personality

  • @greta4867
    @greta4867 3 года назад

    Thank you!

  • @rumibumi9296
    @rumibumi9296 3 года назад +1

    This was so helpful. I've come across this idea i have to change the world now and have to do it with poetry. Lol know what I mean, multidimensional, girl? Aha

  • @lALK5
    @lALK5 Год назад

    👍

  • @rswow
    @rswow Год назад

    Need a background-music-free version.

  • @colleenjuneglatzel5926
    @colleenjuneglatzel5926 2 года назад

    I'm working on my first collection right now. If you take mail, I'll send you a copy..