Blog on Assignment 10

I really enjoyed this week’s assignment (#10) on layering and insight. I thought that both options were really interesting and they really helped me to think outside the box when writing poetry in a way I hadn’t done before. I thought the concepts behind using layering to apply insight indirectly was a very cool technique and I think I definitely created a very intriguing piece as a result. I chose to do option number one and created a poem that used video game titles to discuss concepts about the military and war. And I think I made it really effective by only capitalizing the first letter of each Title word used, all the other words were written in lower-case. I had a lot of fun with it and even my guy friends who I modeled some of my use of language after throughout the piece felt like it was a very powerful and honest portrayal of both the military and war side of my poem influence, while also using video game vocabulary and staying true to how those who play video games react to such games. I even think I subconsciously touched on a very heated debate that stems from critics of violent video games feeling like they are glorifying war and the military to many young people who are playing these games. I’m over all really happy with my poem and I think these types of assignments that allow us to think outside the norm are very beneficial and fun. I will definitely use this technique to explore my poetry writing in the future.