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02 • Those Unsaid Words

THOSE UNSAID WORDS
Author • wild_imaginator16
Reviewer • papersxpen

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TITLE • (7/10)

I see the title relating less strongly with the poems in the book. They are mostly of what your imagination told you, which you have penned down. Sure, they are unsaid, but what I expected to read were unsaid words to some lover or someone who left. Rather, they were quite the opposite. However, the title alone is pretty poetic, so that works with the genre.

COVER • (9/10)

The cover totally works with the title and genre. It emanates a lot of feelings and thus, it makes it attractive. I was definitely down to read your book!

WRITING STYLE/TON/RHYME SCHEME • (16/20)

Your poems are more of a free verse styles but some are rhymed. Those were falling a little off, provided you were just starting off with writing. Your lines were not having a smooth flow, they rather felt narrative or monologue of sorts. I didn't get the feel of reading a poetry as they were just the beginnings to them.

Your poem gives off mild emotions, subtly trying to peer through and that was a good thought. Your imagery was delightful, however, I am not ignited by much of the poems since they were mostly based on nature and peace. They didn't exactly have any strong quoting to make me want to read more. You can be strong on the word choices you make, which might strengthen the effect you want to have on readers.

ORIGINALITY • (8/10)

I didn't find it much original because I have read the sorts of poems quite a lot of times, and the writing style is also of an amateur grade.

GRAMMAR • (18/20)

Your grammar was good, and I have mentioned this before to expand your vocabulary and include better words. You can easily get them off of Google or you can develop your vocabulary too. I would, however, advice you to always go through your grammar and make corrections if you find some, because I did, in some places.

ENJOYMENT • (7/10)

Your poems were rather dull, maybe because the nature and imagination based poems are not much of my type. Those which I did find of my liking (the hurt, struggle and pain) could have been better. I would also suggest you to incorporate some more poetic devices than you have. They can actually beautify your poems a lot.

Another suggestion of mine would be for you to keep your better poems first so as to keep readers stuck, because a bad poem on the first chapter is not a good impression. Your first poem in the book was the first poem of yours, and I appreciate the intentions and emotions you have with that, but I was not impressed with it. The reason being that first poems are not good in comparison with what you have become now —a better poet and with a better writing sense.

OVERALL IMPRESSION • (16/20)

It was a mildly good poetry book and it was a good read.

TOTAL • (81/100)