Good and Bad Poetry
(An analysis and evaluation on ?Little Boy Blue? and ?The Toys?.) What is a ?good? poem? Or what makes a poem ?bad?. There are no specific rules or guidelines to writing a poem. It is easy to form an opinion of what is good or what is bad on two different poems for an individual, but to be able to make informed judgments and for these judgments to be accepted as good or bad, universally, takes a bit more of an in-depth insight. In this analysis and evaluation of ?Little Boy Blue? and ?The Toys?, one will be able to understand what makes them either good poems or bad poems by the writers? usage of diction, images and figure of speech, details, and the poems general impression. As well, it will incorporate that both poems are sentimental but differ in their appeal to a beginning reader and a more mature reader. There are three basic questions that one must follow in judging a poem or poems. What is the poem?s central purpose? In ?Little Boy Blue? the purpose of this poem is in a loved one?s death, the ones? who loved them will always remain longingly and true. The central purpose of ?The Toys? is before one takes out their aggression on a child, remember that a child is good and seeks
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Approximate Word count = 1126
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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