I loved doing the music/ekphrastic poems and all of the exercises we’ve been doing in class. This unit has been a lot of fun because poetry can be about anything (and even about nothing). It makes the writing process a lot freer, but a lot more difficult to look at what you’ve created and see if it’s any good (which still, may mean it’s just freer over all).
I liked the exercises we did in class, although I don’t feel like writing on a strict time deadline worked very well for me. I think that given time to go back over the poems I wrote if I intend to use them for an assignment, they will work much better, and I think that they do offer a good place to start and to work from if I get stuck.
Completing all the in-class exercises with restrictions really helped me appreciate being able to write unrestricted. I found it really difficult to follow different rules (especially when it’s “line by line”) and it felt like it really hindered my creativity. At least, I had a huge case of writer’s block because the words just weren’t coming to me. I find it much easier when the guidelines are looser because I can format however I want.
I realized during this past week that I enjoyed writing free verse poems with restrictions set in mind. The one I personally enjoyed was imagining a person’s hand and writing a whole poem with that. I also enjoyed the writing exercise of imagining a place and describing it with short phrases. Having restrictions made me feel as if there was some sort of structure rather than having an infinite amount of things to write about and not knowing where to start.
My takeaway for this week was reading the complete version of In the Current by Joann Beard. Having those additional paragraphs completely changed the way I interpreted the story, along with providing clarity as to the stylistic choices made by Beard while writing the first few paragraphs, as well as the title of the piece.
I have enjoyed the variety of readings that you have selected. There are so many themes and styles to take inspiration from in my own writing. I am excited to try more styles and utilize the freedom of writing that poetry allows.
I really enjoyed the first writing exercise, the split self-poem because it gives me inspiration and I am not starting from scratch. By having another poem to read, I like to play the word association game and come up with a poem.
I loved doing the music/ekphrastic poems and all of the exercises we’ve been doing in class. This unit has been a lot of fun because poetry can be about anything (and even about nothing). It makes the writing process a lot freer, but a lot more difficult to look at what you’ve created and see if it’s any good (which still, may mean it’s just freer over all).
I liked the exercises we did in class, although I don’t feel like writing on a strict time deadline worked very well for me. I think that given time to go back over the poems I wrote if I intend to use them for an assignment, they will work much better, and I think that they do offer a good place to start and to work from if I get stuck.
Completing all the in-class exercises with restrictions really helped me appreciate being able to write unrestricted. I found it really difficult to follow different rules (especially when it’s “line by line”) and it felt like it really hindered my creativity. At least, I had a huge case of writer’s block because the words just weren’t coming to me. I find it much easier when the guidelines are looser because I can format however I want.
I realized during this past week that I enjoyed writing free verse poems with restrictions set in mind. The one I personally enjoyed was imagining a person’s hand and writing a whole poem with that. I also enjoyed the writing exercise of imagining a place and describing it with short phrases. Having restrictions made me feel as if there was some sort of structure rather than having an infinite amount of things to write about and not knowing where to start.
My takeaway for this week was reading the complete version of In the Current by Joann Beard. Having those additional paragraphs completely changed the way I interpreted the story, along with providing clarity as to the stylistic choices made by Beard while writing the first few paragraphs, as well as the title of the piece.
I have enjoyed the variety of readings that you have selected. There are so many themes and styles to take inspiration from in my own writing. I am excited to try more styles and utilize the freedom of writing that poetry allows.
I really enjoyed the first writing exercise, the split self-poem because it gives me inspiration and I am not starting from scratch. By having another poem to read, I like to play the word association game and come up with a poem.