Weaknesses have a certain function in a poem... some strategy in order to pave the reader's way to the impact of this or that line.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.
After so many books and so many years of writing, I have a good idea of my strengths and weaknesses. I love the process of writing and, if I allowed myself, I would write far too much every day. One weakness which I've struggled to overcome is my tendency to having my characters ruminate for pages.
There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and criticism is a defense of poetry to try and keep something alive in poetry.
Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.
We all can relate to people's weaknesses. We might put up a facade that everything is perfect but none of us are. When we see that weakness in somebody else, we understand or give ourselves a little bit of leeway.
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.