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This week's poem assignment was rather challenging for me at first. It was hard for me to try to write this type of nonsense poem because I didn't know how to approach it. Generally when I have approached poetry in the past, I have a certain story/idea/message that I would like to get across, which makes it easy to start writing. I would simply use a known technique from class or a certain form to then create it and add drama. With this assignment however, I felt that I had complete freedom in it to be abstract, creative, and nonsensical but I had no idea how to start. I felt that all my ideas were just jumbled because of the specificis of the task. Struggling to write this poem however, gave me a greater appreciation for the work of Christian Bok and other poets who work in a similar genre. It allowed me to really see the thought and creativity that these type of poems require, and I think the assignment served as a strong challenge to our skills thus far. In the end, I ended up being quite satisfied with my poem because it sounds different than all the other poems I have done so far. Overall, I think this shows that my knowledge and appreciation of poetry has grown throughout the course.