Which would you prefer?

Question

Do you like poetry that has beautiful stanzas, yet the message is vague and able to apply to almost anything in a beautiful way, or would you prefer poetry that is straight forward as well as beautiful?

Answer 1

That's it?!? Those are the choices?

Then I choose door #3. You know, the one where the stanzas are beautiful, the lines are meaningful, and get a painting in my head.

Answer 2

What's a stanza is that a medical condition. I tend to think that even when some writers tend to think that there work is straight forward for reasons unknown to the writer it will seem vague to someone. So I tend to like the ones that I'm not sure of or at least that's what tends to be a good poet in my book. Someone that can right in several dimesions.

Answer 3

I like poetry that unfolds, poetry with layers. Light fluffy stuff is fine, but poems that are too vague have failed to communicate their thoughts, so there is no connection, and I quickly move on. What I really like is what I call "Onion poetry", a poem that works on many levels and has many layers that are revealed as you peel each one back...and the really good ones, are so good they make you want to cry.

that's what I prefer.

Answer 4

Both. More general poetry gives the reader room to let their imagination take over and more straight forward poetry gives the reader better visuals.

Answer 5

I pick the first choice!1 or description !! " In my OPINION!!... Using or coming up with a poem that would have some to imagine a sort of glorious scene !! while along the way they are able to use ones own imagination !! To better detail & or understand for self !1 in the most positive ways !! `'R"r,r'r`r.'-

Answer 6

Dear, anything and everything counts in the form of the written word. You see, each line is a composition of feeling and intellect enclosed with the signature of the poet’s soul, whether it is vague –for us it may very well be- but to the beholder, it shows all the meanings of meanings and all the reason of reason to be. Good Luck

Answer 7

Straight forward and beautiful. I like nothing more than a poem that I can completley apply to my own situation.

Answer 8

I love to read poetry ..that has beautiful words combining eachother filling your mind in a place full of blue ocean.

Answer 9

I have to say Dancing Bee and the answerer previous to me did a nice job of responding. I've never liked "either or" questions, myself. I'm a believer in shades of grey, nuance, herbs and spices, the ability to hold two opposing thoughts at the exact same time without driving myself mad.

Answer 10

I like my poetry deep fried, sauteed in butter, sliced into elegant couplets at times, other times cut in chunky stanzas.

I want the flavour to be robust, at times mellow, at times smoky with a hint of hickory or oak, or cherry.

I want clarity at times, or at other times a murky darkness, but total opacity frightens me. Yet at times I like to get scared.

No, I like my technical manuals straight forward, or maybe the occasional phallus, but my poetry I like skewed and slanted, twisted and curly cued.

Beauty is always a plus. But ugly like a fat teen with acne can be at times fascinatingly repulsive. Like I said, I like to be scared. Ugly like a pug or a scarred old face is cool too. Ugly is as ugly does, said Forrest. Coyote ugly? Wolf handsome? Pug ugly?

Ugly as a pug doing a thug on a rug? Or ugly as a scruggy mug, laughing while downing a jug of strong mung?