Can anyone help me understand teenage poetry?
ok im a 14 year old girl who loves poetry and were teenagers our whole life is love and breakups and friends back stabing us we write poetry to express our feelings and we usally pick the best answer we feel cheers us up or on i believe some people only do this to get points yes but some people really take this seriously if you just read a women older than 20’s poetry its all about there life and there jobs or what they observe im guessing if you were a teen in this time youd be writing the same exact thing.
Elaine has come pretty close to the answer Granny. I cast my mind back some sixty three years when I was still at school.From the age of twelve up until girls reached the age of seventeen or even eighteen, most were still flat chested and their minds still fitted their age. Today with better nutrition a young girl of twelve may have the body of an eighteen year old. It seems to me that their minds are in competition with their bodies. It is as if they are thinking “I look like a woman therefore I must try and think like one”. Hence the kind of poetry that is written is a copy of what they have either read about or seen on TV, or have experienced in their own families. My guess is; it for this reason that such poetry is written. “As I am therefore I must be” In time their minds will catch up. If they are still interested in poetry you will see the gradual changes taking place. This thought also applies to the young men.
Their poetry, if not as articulate and traditionalist is no less potent and worthy than any of the greats I feel. They write from the heart, trying to express (and purge sometimes I guess) how they truly feel, as honestly as they can. NEVER laugh, critique too harshly or scoff at a Teen’s poetry and they’ll never forget it and will most likely think twice before showing you their work or opening up again with you. I respect them for at least grabbing a hold of their emotions and facing their fears (however scattered, dark or strange they might seem) and putting them down on paper – that takes guts.
