I recently read a blog and was so appalled by it that I simply had to write a critique!! So here it goes..
The art of knowing/ mastering something and using it only when required, demands a degree of self restraint which is seen in a matured artist, which was totally lacking in this blogger.
There were lines like “ a gentle zephyr laden with the fragrance of jasmine” or “ mellifluous sound like that of a brook in the lonely moors” what was she trying? Compete with Tennyson?. Looks like the writer only just learnt these words from Norman Lewis’s ‘Word power made easy’ and was anxious to use them before she forgot them (It was a she yes!). “a gentle breeze laden with…” is just as good as zephyr!! Ostentatious and unnecessarily flashy!!
Also she seemed to love food and colours too much.. There was this so- called poem that she had written, which did not have the most important feature of a poem (rhyme and rhythm), where a whole stanza had nothing but colours..no thanks, we learnt about basic colours in our first grade!!
Our Ms. Mother Teresa seemed to love giving advice for free.. I would recommend her to start a general counseling portal. That would anyday run better than this.
To top it all, the poor thing had added herself as a follower of her own blog!! The levels blogging has come down to!
After having read this if you still think you can endure it, please click on the link below http://www.supriyamadhavan.blogspot.com
The art of knowing/ mastering something and using it only when required, demands a degree of self restraint which is seen in a matured artist, which was totally lacking in this blogger.
There were lines like “ a gentle zephyr laden with the fragrance of jasmine” or “ mellifluous sound like that of a brook in the lonely moors” what was she trying? Compete with Tennyson?. Looks like the writer only just learnt these words from Norman Lewis’s ‘Word power made easy’ and was anxious to use them before she forgot them (It was a she yes!). “a gentle breeze laden with…” is just as good as zephyr!! Ostentatious and unnecessarily flashy!!
Also she seemed to love food and colours too much.. There was this so- called poem that she had written, which did not have the most important feature of a poem (rhyme and rhythm), where a whole stanza had nothing but colours..no thanks, we learnt about basic colours in our first grade!!
Our Ms. Mother Teresa seemed to love giving advice for free.. I would recommend her to start a general counseling portal. That would anyday run better than this.
To top it all, the poor thing had added herself as a follower of her own blog!! The levels blogging has come down to!
After having read this if you still think you can endure it, please click on the link below http://www.supriyamadhavan.blogspot.com
3 comments:
ha ha.. better way to publicize.. keep it up..:) \m/
@ambi: i do not know if u realised it was a self critique:P
Meta-criticism is healthy, really.
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