My takeaways this week were vast. I’ve realized how frustrating poetry is for me when I feel like I can’t get anything down of quality, and the frustration makes my writing worse; it’s like a cycle that I didn’t experience while writing for the nonfiction and fiction units. If I find myself stuck on poetry, I have to take a step back or I’ll end up wasting my time.
I also found it quite surprising how much of a difference it makes for me to write poetry with image prompts rather than music. I listen to a lot of Dexter Gordon and Ryo Fukui while writing for other classes or doing homework, but noise while writing poetry made things difficult. The poems I generated in class while looking at artwork were short, but a few of them weren’t too bad.
I also think that writing poetry about the environment is the easiest for me. I find myself very moved by emotional, raw, real poetry and words that strike deep, but I’m rather ill equipped to write poetry about the human experience at my current skill level. At the beginning of the poetry unit, I chose a piece of nonfiction to turn into a poem, and it was a description of a beach from back home; after converting that into a form poem, it read quite well, and trying my hand at a few more similar pieces gave me good results.
After reading through so many different forms and writing styles, I’ve come to realize I like much more literal poetry that doesn’t delve too much into the abstract. I also much prefer to write in free verse, as that gives me the freedom to jot down whatever my mind conjures. I think converting free verse to form is the only way I can properly create a form poem. Haikus are probably my favorite form because they’re so short and concise – something that I can really get behind.
My takeaway for this week was that I really enjoyed writing to music because I was able to take inspiration from the lyrics or play word association in my head to come up with ideas. Also, out of all the different form of poetry, I really liked haiku poem because I was able to have a fun time while writing.
Writing to music was fun but writing to art pieces was far more productive for me. I can look back and pull from many of the drafts that were inspired by the art pieces. The music inspired ones are very identical to the actual lyrics of the song.
I really loved doing ekphrastic poetry in class! I enjoyed having something to react to, in a way, and it removes the block I tend to have of “what do I write about?” in a really authentic way. I also love visual art in general, so it was a combination of favorites that really worked for me. I thought the musical poems were really hard, though, since I didn’t have anything to really associate with most of them, which made it difficult to (once again) come up with what to write about.
For this week, I was able to discover a new way of writing poetry through the use of visual and auditory references. It was an interesting form of writing- from having restrictions in the mood to having something more concrete in front of you. From those writing exercises, I liked the music one because I felt more freedom with the subject as long as I followed the rhythm.
My takeaway for this week was exploring with different forms of poetry. In particular, my favorite assignment was when we converted our form poems into free verse poems. The way the same poem can be interpreted in different forms truly amazed me!
My takeaways this week were vast. I’ve realized how frustrating poetry is for me when I feel like I can’t get anything down of quality, and the frustration makes my writing worse; it’s like a cycle that I didn’t experience while writing for the nonfiction and fiction units. If I find myself stuck on poetry, I have to take a step back or I’ll end up wasting my time.
I also found it quite surprising how much of a difference it makes for me to write poetry with image prompts rather than music. I listen to a lot of Dexter Gordon and Ryo Fukui while writing for other classes or doing homework, but noise while writing poetry made things difficult. The poems I generated in class while looking at artwork were short, but a few of them weren’t too bad.
I also think that writing poetry about the environment is the easiest for me. I find myself very moved by emotional, raw, real poetry and words that strike deep, but I’m rather ill equipped to write poetry about the human experience at my current skill level. At the beginning of the poetry unit, I chose a piece of nonfiction to turn into a poem, and it was a description of a beach from back home; after converting that into a form poem, it read quite well, and trying my hand at a few more similar pieces gave me good results.
After reading through so many different forms and writing styles, I’ve come to realize I like much more literal poetry that doesn’t delve too much into the abstract. I also much prefer to write in free verse, as that gives me the freedom to jot down whatever my mind conjures. I think converting free verse to form is the only way I can properly create a form poem. Haikus are probably my favorite form because they’re so short and concise – something that I can really get behind.
My takeaway for this week was that I really enjoyed writing to music because I was able to take inspiration from the lyrics or play word association in my head to come up with ideas. Also, out of all the different form of poetry, I really liked haiku poem because I was able to have a fun time while writing.
Writing to music was fun but writing to art pieces was far more productive for me. I can look back and pull from many of the drafts that were inspired by the art pieces. The music inspired ones are very identical to the actual lyrics of the song.
I really loved doing ekphrastic poetry in class! I enjoyed having something to react to, in a way, and it removes the block I tend to have of “what do I write about?” in a really authentic way. I also love visual art in general, so it was a combination of favorites that really worked for me. I thought the musical poems were really hard, though, since I didn’t have anything to really associate with most of them, which made it difficult to (once again) come up with what to write about.
For this week, I was able to discover a new way of writing poetry through the use of visual and auditory references. It was an interesting form of writing- from having restrictions in the mood to having something more concrete in front of you. From those writing exercises, I liked the music one because I felt more freedom with the subject as long as I followed the rhythm.
My takeaway for this week was exploring with different forms of poetry. In particular, my favorite assignment was when we converted our form poems into free verse poems. The way the same poem can be interpreted in different forms truly amazed me!