Name: victoria_anne (Signed) · Date: 10 May 2020 03:29 AM · For: Music

Hi Tasha! I'm here for May review swaps!

 

This is a really beautiful piece, and I loved the story of healing it that it told. I love how with each stanza there is a tiny change, a little bit more happiness. My guess is that the speaker listens to a song they used to dance to with a partner who is now gone. They couldn't bear to listen to the song because it was too painful, they felt numb and then sad, but as time goes on they can appreciate the music because it reminds them of happier times. It's beautifully done and has this natural progression of healing over time. It takes small steps, but is eventually done.

 

Some lines seem to rhyme, and others don't, so I'm not sure what form you had in mind, but the rhythm is still there and nothing felt out of place. It was an absolute joy to read. Wonderful job, Tasha!

Name: VaguelyCreativeName (Signed) · Date: 30 Sep 2019 03:06 PM · For: Music

Hey Tasha, I’m here – at the last minute – for our September review swap!

 

I love the juxtaposition of the first stanza’s opening lines and the rest of it – Music is something that, I think, everybody reacts to in some way so to be confronted with the character’s total lack of reaction is quite striking, and I especially love how each individual line does (or rather, doesn’t) do what it says on the tin: the beat does fall flat, there is no bass line, and no crescendo either. I also think it’s really clever how you underline that with your lack of punctuation – like how there’s no full stops for beats and base line, and no exclamation point for the crescendo; I really enjoyed how the form and content levels interact with each other!

 

I also love how you link the individual stanzas through you use of repetition of both individual words and structures, but distinguish them at the same time by showing the development and recovery of the character – I especially loved the last stanza and its optimism, particularly the repetition of ‘dance’ (it’s just such a happy word, you know?), and how you finally do use punctuation at the end – I feel like since you refrained from doing so earlier, it ties the entire poem together so that it reads as one continuous development rather than five individual stages. I also love how that gives weight to the final line, and it makes me hopeful that the optimism and contentedness reflected in it are going to last for the character.

 

I don’t read poetry very often, so please let me know if my interpretation at all matches anything you were attempting to do here if you find the time!

 

Love,

Julia

Name: Unwritten Curse (Signed) · Date: 08 Dec 2018 12:18 PM · For: Music

Hi Tasha!

 

I wanted to stop by to leave a gift review for you and saw that you had written poetry! I've been a bit of a poetry kick myself, so I've been trying to read more poetry to get inspired. I'm glad I read this piece.

 

I like the movement and progression of the stanzas, how the mood changes with each one. I think it speaks a lot to the idea that different styles of music speak to each of us in a different way. One may resonate deeply and bring us back to our teen years while another feels empty. It was cool how you repeated lines, changing words here and there to show the effect of different styles of music, and how we can change over time.

 

Music has a lot of power and it can make a big emotional impact if we let it. I love that it can inspire us and "make us feel alive again," as you put it. I think poetry can do that as well. There's something so lyrical and moving about poetry, how it lets us each imagine what we want and take away what we need.

 

Thanks for sharing this! And happy holidays. :)

 

--Gina

Name: TreacleTart (Signed) · Date: 17 Aug 2018 03:56 AM · For: Music

Hey there!

 

I’m here to drop off a review for Quodpot Match 2 because this has the friends to lovers tag.

 

This was an intense poem. Clearly, you felt a lot of emotion while you were writing it. To me, it seems like heartbreak and then finding yourself again. Perhaps the song was your song from a relationship and after the end of the relationship it’s hard to listen to it. Then slowly as you heal you once again learn to appreciate it.

 

The reason I think that it might be about that is because I felt that way after my divorce. My wedding song was a beautiful song, but after the divorce it was so flat and I just couldn’t listen to it. Eventually, as my heart healed, I came to appreciate the song again.

 

I think from a technical stand point, this poem is pretty good. For the most part, you kept line length fairly similar which helped it to flow. My only little bit of critique is that the first two stanzas have a rhyming pattern, but the final ones do not. This threw me off a bit that it started off rhyming and suddenly stopped rhyming.

 

All in all, I thought this was a lovely poem. I look forward to seeing what else you end up posting.

 

Good work!

 

~Kaitlin

 

Name: Dojh167 (Signed) · Date: 03 Dec 2017 09:23 PM · For: Music

At first I thought this would be about depression, and not reacting to things that typically elicit emotion. But later in the first stanza you mention how there is no pounding bass line and no crescendo, which makes it sound like the fault isn’t so much with the listener, as with the music itself.

 

Oh, and then the next stanzas are different reactions to music! I wonder if they are to the same music, or different music.

 

I get the sense that the speaker has changed to some degree between stanzas. The speaker’s emotions are very different each time, and while the music described is somewhat different, I don’t think it’s the only thing that has changed. There are a lot of references to aging and feeling different ages. In the second stanza it makes me think that it is a young person feeling old, and in the third stanza it seems the reverse, of an older person feeling young again. It feels to me like we are seeing little snapshots of this person’s life and how they’ve changed through the years, both in external and internal ways.

 

This was very interesting and well written! I hope you add more of your poetry!

 

Sam.