That doesn't sound particularly enthusiastic - Mafyyil is very sensitive to that after her instructors' reactions to her writing. Sulen, however, hasn't even read any of her poems before, so their reaction is a complete mystery to Mafyyil. "I've written it in the hexarchate style, of course!" - she's trying to be reassuring there - "people were so nice to provide me with a writing guide and some, um, literary examples!"
Re: cultural literacy: paging Iawa, Ione, and Mafyyil