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Often Pictured

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picture, nudity, perception, poetry
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Published on:

May 30, 4:04am

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35

Last Edited:

June 4, 2:21am

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A poem about perception, and nudity.

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Often I picture your unclothed body:

   Facet and flaw  

Curve and shadow

   Traced from a master’s pages

Yet a body still.

   Delight and derision  

Grace and modesty

   Veiled in hazy trepidation

Yet naked still.

 

 

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 Hi, I have a degree in Literature and I enjoy writing poetry too. I have won prizes for poetry, short stories as well as national essay writing competitions.

 

Your opening words, "uncloth body"  tantalise our tastebuds for more as you set the stage for us to look into

your voyeuristic mind. Quite an interesting opening.

The image of a diamond, compared to the perfection of the naked body,  used in line two is interesting, we

hope that the descriptionof this perfect naked body is further built upon. We hope also to have a

continuation of the imagery of a flawless diamond juxtaposed with that of a naked body. However, you  drop

that beautiful image and it is not developed. what a pity.

You move on to describe the body as " curve and shadow"  and the image of

a tracing from a page deflates the nice image you built up in the first two lines.

" Delight and derision" also seems out of place in the poem because it is not in line with the image of the

naked body. Although I am sure you meant these words as a poetic device, they do not fit in with the theme

of the poem. " Grace and modesty" is unique as you want to portray the nude body as something

beautiful in its nakedness but not lewd. However, again the ending lines "Yet naked still"  seems to slap

yourself in the face as your had just writtin about grace and modesty. Perhaps you might have ended with a

phrase praising both nudity and modesty or something about a diamond being flawless and perfect but

also modest. .   

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