tension blog

I also found it difficult to complete the tension assignment, because in being asked to create that much push and pull tension I felt like it becoming obvious where the poem was actually going next. I perhaps took the concept of the close competition too literally, and I should have worked on doing slight variations in tension, rather than the focusing on "reversing" what was going on.
I would also like to work on using a specific form in my poetry, instead of always using the modern technique of free verse. I think it would be good to challenge myself to try to mimic a poet's work with my own topic, as I have not yet ventured into a more strict style. I also really enjoyed the "Bluebeard" class, because I thought it was interesting how many different versions of that story exist. I think the creepiness of the story made it extremely captivating, and I can see why many poets would want to take pieces and themes from it. I hope that in one of our next assignments we are asked to re-create a theme or fairy tale like the exercise we started to do in class, as we could work on developing our own twist and style into some of our favorite childhood tails.