What Attracts You To A Poem?

  • Pink Butterfly
    14 years ago

    The title is the gateway to every poem!!!
    It is definitely the main attraction of the readers...
    Then, the content of the poem just follows!

  • Rocky
    14 years ago

    The title usually is what catches my eye first but someties i just click on them at random. i nearly never bother to read poems of 4 lines per stanza as nearly every1 writes like that and i find them boring and generic. i like unusual creative structure and rhyming. i hate poems that are made to fit in with any usual structure as i feel a poem should be formed around the words and emotions not the words made to conform to the poem

  • Tori Hicks
    14 years ago

    When a poem's title looks like the poem could be relatable to me. I love reading a poem and either thinking, 'I wish i could feel like that!' or 'I know exactly how that feels!'

  • Kuro
    14 years ago

    If im just browsing i check first by genre or w/e. then i pick an interesting title.

    but if im scrolling though members and their latest poems, i pick interesting titles. unfortunately i fear that i might have judged some books by their cover, or so to speak.

    but a good title is a good way to bring other people's interest. but there are certainly some great poems with crummy or boring titles. so i can't really say that it is right, but i subconciously pick poems by title, if not first by genre

  • PorcelainMoon
    14 years ago

    Dramatic titles often lead me astray in feilds of regret when roaming P&Q, I often look for hopeful up and comers, contest winners, and read a little erotic poetry/ lust, & Sadness. -x

  • Rusheena
    13 years ago

    The title, tone, rhyme scheme, and use of metaphors

  • HisBlueEyedAngel
    13 years ago

    I go for a title and if it has a good flow...I love to read love poems

  • selene
    13 years ago

    The title and then the first several lines.
    I can't stand pretentious or cliche titles... when they're overly poetic they seem to contain overly bland and boring poems.

  • Jad
    13 years ago

    I look for a catchy title and then for a great opening in a poem. You can basically tell how good a poem will be "usually" with the opening. Some poems I get attracted to just because of the category that their in and also any type of form poetry. I love form poetry a lot and I like to see what people can do with their talent.