Week 5 Blog

It was really interesting to read the different poems about the Blackbeard story in class on Tuesday. It opened my eyes to ways that one can take a certain part of a story and focus intensely on it or decide to drag it out. While the different versions of the Blackbeard poems all tell the story, they still use vivid details and emotions that make each poem stand out in different ways. Sylvia Plath was able to do this in her poem by just taking one part of the story, about giving back the key, to really portray how this wife could feel inside. When writing the poem for our assignment this week I thought closely about the themes and plots of stories and how they can be used in poetry. It was challenging but interesting to think of a non sporting event that could really portray that kind of tension. I also looked back at some of the poems we read a couple weeks ago that used a lot of tension in certain parts of the story. This helped me to try and create certain areas of tension in my poem but also letting it die down at other points as well. I am having a little trouble though picking out certain words that will really help increase tension in certain areas.