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. .
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. .