'The Poetry Student': A Manifesto

Hi again everybody!

As promised in my previous posting, this post sets out to explain he basic premises behind 'The Poetry Student' and hopefully set fourth a half-decent little sales pitch to those potential poets who may be stopping by.

The Grand Scheme
The basic premise of this blog is simple: I'm a very mediocre poet, but a pretty decent literary analyst. Thus, I'll forgo the more traditionally conceived, heart-on-the-sleeve approach to poetry and take a more analytical avenue.

Instead of weeping fragile tears over lost love, I'll be reading up on poetic analysis, forms, and theories, and trying pull out of them whatever understanding I possibly can.

In time, the hope is that, by constantly exposing my self to more and more poetic techniques and genres, and by applying them again and again, to my own shoddy work, I'll begin to see some improvement.
More importantly, as I begin to see a direct correlation between the use of certain ideas/techniques, and the creation of a positive poetic outcome, I'll begin to be able to trace my poetic progression, thus drawing out a basic blueprint for poetic development.

Battleplans
Of course, laying out a widely applicable framework for poetic progress won't happen over night. If its going to happen at all, its going to be thanks to the nitty gritty: my (hopefully) bi-weekly posts.

The seeds of my poetic postings will be planted by a little light reading throughout the week. After studying up on some poets or some forms, I'll distill whatever I think is it's most worthwhile tidbit, and try my best to implement it in a short poem. If the poem turns out to be only mildly embarrassing, I'll go ahead and post it to Associated Content, write up a post explaining my thought processes behind the piece, and link it to my poem.

The Pivotal Piece
But I wont just drop it there. This blog is meant to provide more than just a chronicle my own poetic musings, its meant to provide real value to to poets of all persuasions.

The way I intend to add this vale is simple: I'll take my mediocre poems and, after further research, reading and analysis, I'll edit them, applying the new information that I've learned. Then, I'll post those edited pieces online, juxtaposed to their previous manifestations, and explain, to the best of my ability, what makes these poems better. 

So, not only will veiwer sbe able to see how the aggregation of poetic knowledge helps contribute to a poets writng, they'll be able to see that knowledge at work within specific pieces, and be able to tease out exactly how that knowledge interacts with poems on a line-by-line level. Its this careful observation and articulation of what makes poems vary in potency that I hope will help separate this blog from the crowd, and make it worth your while to stop by.