Importance of categorizing Poems

I'm not sure on how important placing a submitted poem in the proper category is so I'm left to ask, is submitting a poem in one category different than another? I write in most aspects to reach more than three such such categories, so how does one decide the proper classification?

Re: Importance of categorizing Poems

I don't think it is very important at all.

The best poems I have read are full of ideas and symbology that covers at least two or three categories.

I think they should have a category emotional solophistic crying. But noone would put their poems there. Heck, i have a few I could put there myself though.

Painful to read 20-30 years later.

Speaking of solophists, They had a big convention of about 20,000 last year in San Francisco, but everyone considered it a bust cause they thought they were the only ones there. lol

Re: Importance of categorizing Poems

Well, just from the ones I've submitted, I'd have to admit, trying to decide which "category" to put it in, took almost as long as it took to compose the poem. The categories seem to be from an emotional point of view. For instance, my work entitled, "HELP!", one person can read it and get a sad feeling; and someone else can read it and get pissed off. Read it and you tell me which category I should have put it in.

Re: Importance of categorizing Poems

It's not important to me, but it's probably important for whoever is searching for that specific type of poem. That's how I try to see it.

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Re: Importance of categorizing Poems

I think it is more of a relevant thing at least that how I took it when submitting poems...I just said hmmmmm what was I feeling when I wrote this and placed it in the catagory.