Workshopping

I have never taken a college level english course, and have therefore never engaged in any short of workshopping, so this weeks classes were particularly interesting to me. Having other people analyze my poem, and come up with ideas that were so foreign to the thoughts I had while I was writing it was both a confusing and awesome experience. The fact that other people were reading my work, and seeing a picture, an idea, or an argument that had not even crossed my mind while I was writing it made be realize the absolute sublimity of using poetry as a medium for expression. I even found myself enjoying other people's interpretations more than my original idea -- giving me incentive to change the poem to fit my peer's interpretations.