Week 6 Blog

I found the packet with the concrete poems really helpful in showing me different ways to create a poem. I have usually always thought of poems as being written in stanzas or paragraphs but in these concrete poems I was able to see people write there poems through different shapes and images that most of the time apply to the subject of their poem. One of my favorite ones in the packet was the football poem about offense and defense. I thought it was very clever to arrange the letters in a football formation and throughout the four different parts it seemed the game was happening and the letters were getting more scrambled. I had trouble in class though on Tuesday when we were asked to place our own work in a certain style that went a long with my poem. I am still having trouble thinking about unique ways to make concrete poems but hopefully as the semester goes on and I write more poems, I will get more ideas. Two of my poems that I wrote this week for our workshop assignment ended up having a kind of similar feel to them. When I decide to write my poems in one sitting I seem to come up with similar themes for my poems so it might be more helpful to space out the time when I decide write poetry.