For our assignment this week, I had trouble coming up with just one particular image that I wanted to write about. It seemed easier to create lots of images that I could put in my poem but tough to come up with one sole image that I could work with. I tried to use many different senses to draw the reader in and while I am used to putting more visual senses into poems, it was good for me to try to work with other senses. This assignment was helpful to me because I rarely focus on just one image while writing poetry so it made me come up with more specific details.
Out of the poems that we went over this week, I really enjoyed the ones we read by Kevin Young. I think his poetry is a good example of how a writer can draw a reader in by using detailed images and does not feel the need to be wordy while describing them. It was interesting to compare his work to the other poems we read in class because the techniques are so different. I like the way Kevin Young creates his stanzas so the sentence continues on to the next one, making the feel of the poem very slow, which is appropriate because of the speakers state of mind.
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