Mia's review of Meghan's poem

I like how she contrasts the good times of a best friend with the bad times because no friendship perfect, they all experience their highs and lows and I thought it the poem more realistic. For example in the first two stanzas of the poem she talks about the highs of the friendship like teaching her how to forgive and always listening. Then in the third stanza she talks about the fights and the pain. I really liked the fifth stanza when she says “We made a promise, one we both can keep; /To always remember each other and to never /Accept defeat. “ I thought that was pretty cool, and the way it had a rhyming scheme. I think that if she was using a connection between being a best friend and her boyfriend that she could have touched basis with it a little more by throwing a little specific details like she did in the first line about the first kiss.

And not to say that I didn’t like the first poem, but I think that the revised poem gives more elaborate details of what you were trying to convey in the first poem. I like the imagery. I also like how you related to the sinking of the Titanic to your heart, maybe because I love that movie. I had to watch it about a thousand times. One of my favorite lines in your poem was “My two favorite feelings; hurt and afraid” because of the irony there. There’s a story in your poem that’s easy to follow and flows. Like the first poem I like the reality of it this relationship, how everything that glitters is not gold, and anything that is perfect is not real.