| Re: Teacher discouraging me to do poetry!?
Of course you may do it.
How to avoid subjective marking? I have no authoritative or definitive answers, but i have an inkling. Study contemporary and classic poetry that is popular for either its literary prowess or because it it just well liked. Study it. Try to figure out what it is that has made it popular today, and why it has endured. WHAT is it that has may it so good? eg: Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Aeneid, the Iliad, Charge of the Light Brigade, Ulysses (by Tennyson), Paradise lost, etc. (note these are all quite lengthy - most are epics).
Once you figure this out, emulate what was liked about it. Emulate what it does well. I'm sure if you do this it may ReDuce the elements of subjectivity.
Justify it too in your reflection. It is amazing how many marks you can get in general if you successfully and skilfully argue why you did it.
Also: this may contradict the whole "do as u please" syndrome, but write for your audience to get the best marks. Write things that are likely to appeal to HSC markers (ie aging school teachers). This tenant, in greater or lesser degrees, is a necessity of poetry ( I believe).
I plan on trying my hands at a poem(extended piece). Not too well practised though...
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Dante, De Monarchia
"Wherein the moralist design'd
A compliment on human kind:
For here he owns, that now and then
Beasts may degenerate into men"
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