Poetry

I thought Assignment 2 was pretty fun. As I have mentioned in my previous blog regarding poetry class, I was looking forward to developing my poetry writing skills. This assignment was actually perfect for that because it was an open-ended assignment as far as technique and topic go. I really enjoyed coming up with my own topic to begin with, because there has been something on my mind for a while and I wanted to express it freely. Also, when we read a handout due for class on Monday- the one about tension and contrast-, I thought that was pretty clutch in terms of coming up with a style of some sort. I ended up following many of the techniques on that Temperature handout, and I thought it was great that most of the next class time was spent discussing those techniques. I looked at my poem after that class and thought it followed many of the techniques we talked about... some were also kind of coincidental. I also re-read the poem and thought of other ideas that some lines could have meant, and I think that's what makes a piece of work interesting... when there are little things that a reader can pick up on every time he or she reads it over again. I look forward to hearing or reading other people's work on Thursday for the workshop.