blog-week 3

I agree that the Temperature handout in class was very helpful to me in order to understand how to create interesting poems. Having the different tensions spelled out like that made it clear that there is a reason that we are drawn to certain poems. Its not the perfect metaphors and predictable endings that keep readers engaged in a piece, which shapes how I will approach my own works of poetry. Although I did try to utilize some of these techniques in creating my poems for assignment 2, I am sure there are plenty of alterations that can be made and I think it will be very helpful to get other classmate opinions about my work. I am also excited for others to read my work because I may think my message is clear in the piece, but my close relation to the piece makes me completely biased. I am curious to see if readers will be able to pull out the inner message in my work or if they come up with something entirely unintended. Although I want readers to be able to eventually understand what my message is, I will feel like a poetic failure if they are able to pull it out too easily.