I read the two blogs before mine by Kurt and Kim and started to think about how I came up with the poem that I wrote for the second assignment. The first poem I had written was about the summit of a mountain and the view I get when atop of one. In my second poem, I ended up writing about city life and was interested in the outcome of how both of my poems kind of contrasted with eachother because of the different environments I wrote about. I enjoy when the assignments are open ended like this and we can choose to write about what we wish, but I still have a hard time narrowing down topics and thinking about something that will be worthwhile to write about.
It was interesting going over the poems about tension in class this week. I had never before really thought about how a poet can increase and decrease tension and now when I am reading other poems, I keep this thought in my mind. I was expecting most of the poems to have the tension be the greatest at the end but examples of poems we read in class showed that sometimes the tension can decrease instead. Tension is something that I will have to think about more and how I should use it when writing my next poem.
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