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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
I love Halsey as a musician, but the majority of their poetry falls flat. I usually can appreciate rhyming poetry, but so many of their rhymes are awkward and forced. there were some pieces that resonated deeply, but I expected more from such a gifted songwriter.
favourites: “lighthouse,” “the painter”
favourites: “lighthouse,” “the painter”
I'm just not feeling tripped enough to finish these poems. They aren't as great as the poetry book I just read and I'm not really in the mood to finish it.
Meh, to be honest. I was expecting a lot more, but these felt like discarded lyrics to Halsey's songs.
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there were a total of four poems here that i want to re read. please for the love of god stop publishing celebrities' unedited poems i beg of you
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I loved these poems so much. Confessional poetry will always be my favorite and Halsey's poems are dark, longing, personal, hurtful, hurting - I found them to be very powerful. I would recommend these poems to anyone who is in the right headspace to reflect upon their own difficult times.
Content Warnings
Minor: Rape
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If there's an audiobook of this, then I'm sorry I missed it. Sometimes it helps bring more to the words on the page, as I mentioned for Lana del Rey's poetry book.
I do have to mention that Halsey's poetry is NOT bad; she's close to good but needs a guiding hand. She paints intense imagery that can be beautiful and also terrifying. The strongest poem is "The Lighthouse" (which is entirely different from the song of the same name).
The issue is that she falls into treating poetry like a song with the very apparent rhyming and the rhythm/flow of it would be more impactful if heard aloud versus read. I've even found bits of lyrics from later albums in here. While rhyming in poetry is not a bad thing, her approach seems like these were songs she left unfinished/untouched. It felt like she handed those bits off to a publishing house and they didn't bother to guide her with editing.
This is far better than some of the other more mainstream poetry I've read just on the power of imagery alone. However, it also is an example of how just because you can write for one medium pretty well that it doesn't necessarily mean that skill will transfer to another at the same caliber.
I do have to mention that Halsey's poetry is NOT bad; she's close to good but needs a guiding hand. She paints intense imagery that can be beautiful and also terrifying. The strongest poem is "The Lighthouse" (which is entirely different from the song of the same name).
The issue is that she falls into treating poetry like a song with the very apparent rhyming and the rhythm/flow of it would be more impactful if heard aloud versus read. I've even found bits of lyrics from later albums in here. While rhyming in poetry is not a bad thing, her approach seems like these were songs she left unfinished/untouched. It felt like she handed those bits off to a publishing house and they didn't bother to guide her with editing.
This is far better than some of the other more mainstream poetry I've read just on the power of imagery alone. However, it also is an example of how just because you can write for one medium pretty well that it doesn't necessarily mean that skill will transfer to another at the same caliber.
Content Warnings
Minor: Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Abortion
i may not be the most avid poetry reader but i have read my fair share and let me just say Y'ALL HATE ON THIS BOOK TOO MUCH. surely, it's not up there with the legends. of course not but it's very unique in it's own way and dare i say not BASIC. yes, it's not. i enjoyed the book very much. did i enjoy so much that i would give it a whopping five stars? no didn't. but did i enjoy it enough for me to give it a decent rating? yes. yes, i did.
first i would i like to start off by saying how much i adore the cover. i am an absolute sucker for poppy, colorful, eye catching covers and the fact that miss halsey painted it themself. *chef's kiss*. i will pick this any day, any time, any place over generic line drawings. we STAN a talented queen!
now, moving on to the actual book, I think the poems were actually quite nice. surely it isn't the best collection and could definitely have been better but it wasn't as bad as everybody painted it out to be. The book had a lot of wasted potential but it was quite decent. Halsey is an excellent songwriter, who's known for their excellent songwriting and immaculate metaphors and the same could be observed in the book as well. infact their metaphors are not cliche at all, they are very different and unique in their own way; very strange but sort of in an appealing manner.
So some of my faves poems include-:
1) EIGHT
2) TONGUE TWISTER
3) DRAMA QUEEN
4) HAVING
5) A STORY LIKE MINE
6) I WISH THAT I WERE MANIC ALL THE TIME
first i would i like to start off by saying how much i adore the cover. i am an absolute sucker for poppy, colorful, eye catching covers and the fact that miss halsey painted it themself. *chef's kiss*. i will pick this any day, any time, any place over generic line drawings. we STAN a talented queen!
now, moving on to the actual book, I think the poems were actually quite nice. surely it isn't the best collection and could definitely have been better but it wasn't as bad as everybody painted it out to be. The book had a lot of wasted potential but it was quite decent. Halsey is an excellent songwriter, who's known for their excellent songwriting and immaculate metaphors and the same could be observed in the book as well. infact their metaphors are not cliche at all, they are very different and unique in their own way; very strange but sort of in an appealing manner.
So some of my faves poems include-:
1) EIGHT
2) TONGUE TWISTER
3) DRAMA QUEEN
4) HAVING
5) A STORY LIKE MINE
6) I WISH THAT I WERE MANIC ALL THE TIME
dark
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced