As others before me have mentioned, it is quite weird to think that summer is so fast approaching. Overall, I feel like I have really benefited from this course, because it is a topic that I had never really looked into before. Coming from such little poetry experience has allowed me to see how much I have truly progressed over the semester. I understand the importance of word choice and the idea that sometimes less is more. I used to try to use multiple descriptive adjectives to describe nouns, but I now realize that it is important to chose a precise noun in the first place.
I have started to work on our final project and am finding it difficult to completely re-structure some of my works. Some of the pieces I feel are fine how they are and I am scared to re-vise, as I don't want the revisions to make the poem worse in anyway. I think in order to complete the assignment I must therefore look at my poetry from more of an outsider's perspective, because at this point I am too attached to my own ideas. I think the workshop days will teach me how to view my poetry from an outsider's perspective.
I'd like to wish everyone good luck on their upcoming finals and a wonderful summer!
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I feel the same way. I am very attached to my own ideas and the things I wrote about, but I was surprised at how some poems were enhanced by revisions. I wish you luck with this.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with finals, have a great summer!