Assignment 3

In class on Tuesday, I found it helpful that we discussed themes and elements of a poem. Judging from constructive criticism on my last poem, I think I could work more on concrete structure, by using images and a lot more visual stimulation in my writing. Themes and elements would put me on the right path. I want to let my reader know what sort of prolonged metaphors or images I want to convey, as does Emily Dickinson in her writing. She so vividly demonstrates philosophical and spiritual ideas through her concrete images and descriptions, and I don't think I successfully emulated that as much as I wanted to through Assignment 2. For Assignment 3, I plan to use that tension while also clearly using concrete examples for those themes. I'm thinking of providing many elements through images that make the theme so explicit. Sometimes it's hard when you want to say so much in a poem, though. But this should be a pretty interesting turn of events. I'm intrigued to find what sort of elements I brainstorm and how I go about developing a theme.