Workshop and Poetry

Before I read over my group members' poems for Tuesday's workshop, I was intrigued about what they would write. I didn't know what kind of ideas or themes people would want to write about, and I was curious as to how other people went about writing them: which style they would use. When I read some of them, I thought that my ideas were a little similar to theirs, in that people seemed to want to write about a specific problem they were having in that moment. I liked that students didn't just praise something, but instead they added a lot of tension to their poem's argument or theme. This made it enjoyable to ascertain the meaning behind the words and language. I am curious as to whether some of these poems were true to the writers' life or if they were fictional in some sort of aspect... but either way they were based on something real. I'm interested to find out what other people have written about for Thursday's workshop; the ideas and style of verse are kind of important in deciding how to go about writing poetry, and I think it's great that the class is working on that, as well as hearing what other people have written.