Weekly post

I cant believe how fast the semester has gone by. I never would have guessed at the beginning of the semester that I would have had as much fun as I have. I have enjoyed the in class activities as well as the outside work that has helped me grow as a writer. I never would have thought that I would like a poetry class as much as I have liked this one. The assignments were always challenging my ideas of what makes good poetry as well as pushing me to write to the best of my ability and imagination. The two biggest things that I will take away from this class is an understanding of how to break down a piece of work into components in which make it easier for me to understand, as well as not just look on the surface of the piece to find meaning, but being able to go much deeper into the piece and look for the non obvious meaning that a reader most often gets. I will also no think about ideas in which produce concrete images. Theses concrete images not only makes for a better understanding of what the poet is saying, but also makes it enjoyable for all those who read it. I think I have grown a lot as a writer over the semester and have enjoyed writing each of the assignments we were given. I liked this last class day in the way we went over the many techniques of ars poeticas. It help to clarify just what it was we have to do for the final portfolio.