This helps me understand the concept a shade better: a poem that’s written to ingratiate its author with a group or an audience, and probably then a very imitative one, and if so yes, I suppose we have all written imitative poems and this “probably lessens as a writer gains more confidence” whether or not that’s due to more “acceptance”. I still think it would be much easier as well as much more useful to demonstrate why a word, or a phrase, or a line in a poem is incompetently written, or uninteresting, or imitative, or even betraying an ersatz emotion than to show that it’s written “with an eye to advancement”, which would be merely presumptuous, and require a witchfinder’s mind-set or, as David suggests, a wine steward’s nose.
Best wishes,
Jamie