Yesterday's class of the @d-pend's Steemitschool 100 Day Poetry Challenge has been the inaugural "Critique Thursday" class. I (was) volunteered to run it. To follow is a recording of the class. It's only sound, but has been uploaded to Youtube due to technical difficulties with D.sound, as well as moral disagreements with their model:
At the 2:03 minute mark I begin my small explanation of critique, and what it is, how to give it, and the two different sorts of critique.
At the 6:08 mark I talk of "Editing Critique," which is where you go over a pre-published piece, with an eye to specific words and sentences, and edit them.
The piece I used as an example here is @whoshim's "Child's Play". Linked was the editing version with my notes.
14:37 is where we discuss "Impressionistic Critique," which deals with a more holistic feedback, including how the poem made you feel, the images it conjured, etc.
I used @carmalain7's "The Uninhabitable" as the example. You can scroll down to see my full feedback in the comment section.
And then we moved to critiquing specific poems:
42:27 brings us the first poem, @tygertyger's "To Thee Who Loves Me".
At the 1:15:55 mark we reach our second poem, @hazem91's "You Need to do Yourself That Service".
At 1:32:25 we get to our final critiqued poem for the class, @pingcess's "Reflection".
We begin wrapping things up at 1:47:30, and speak some more of improving via critique, and especially self-critique.
Thanks to @d-pend for running the challenge, and to everyone who submitted their pieces for critique, or who was willing to offer critique to others. And I hope this will help everyone in the journey to becoming a better writer, and a better critic, in the non-negative sense of the word.
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Art and flair courtesy of @PegasusPhysics
The image used in the video has been made by @d-pend for the challenge and is used with permission.
© Guy Shalev 2018.