Week 2 Blog

I thought last class was really interesting. I never really considered tension to be such a big aspect to writing poetry before. It definitely makes sense why it is, but I guess I just never really considered it before. I thought the graphs we drew in class were really helpful in establishing what exactly Professor Hummer was getting at as well. I think I'll definitely be using that technique in the future to be able to visualize what I'm doing with tension in my own poems. Speaking of writing our own poems, this weeks assignment (2) was a lot of fun, but more difficult than last weeks. I thought that I definitely was struggling to find topics I felt passionate enough to write about. I struggle a lot with knowing what I should/shouldn't write about even when I know there isn't really a right or wrong answer to that. I guess for me I'm finding I'm still somewhat self-conscious about my poetry. When I compare my poems to the one's we're reading in class I just feel they're poetry is so much farther advanced than mine. The formats they use and the language they play with are just a few examples of how complex I consider they're work to be in comparison to mine. I also think I could use tension to make my previous pieces much stronger if I were to re-write and edit them a little bit. It's definitely something I'll be really interested to get feedback on in workshop and them ultimately improve my pieces for the better. Well... That's all for now. See you all in class tomorrow!