Saturday, December 6, 2008
Metacognition: "On the Corner" Poem
To be honest, I was not looking forward to the poetry assignment at all. I had never written a poem before, and I am just not a natural poem writer. However, I decided to give it a try. That night, I sat down at my computer and tried to write a poem on soul mates, based off of Kate's blog post. I tried to add imagery, alliteration, and all of the writing components of poetry that we had learned about in class. I thought it was pretty good for being my first poem. I had a couple of classmates read it so I could get peer feedback. I made the adjustments that my classmates had suggested and turned it in. The next week when we got our poems back, I conferenced with my teacher. We decided that this poem really had no where else it could go, and I started from scratch with a new poem. This one was about homeless boys that I had seen on a corner of Chicago when I had gone downtown to work at a soup kitchen. I liked my new use of imagery, details, and words. I felt like I had gotten more into the mind set of poetry. I liked this poem a lot more than my first poem. Although I'm still not crazy about writing poetry, I am surprised to find that I actually enjoyed my final draft of my poem. Poetry writing really expanded my writing capabilities, styles, and my view of poetry.
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Poetry is a great way of expressing yourself in a very creative way. I often find that when I'm given a poetry assignment, what I write seems forced and choppy. But it is also important to write about something personal, or something that you care about, because the poem will come out a lot more easily, and will be much more sincere.
Emily,
About the first draft of your poem-- I think it just happens sometimes when you write something, review it, get other people to look at it, etc, but it still doesn't turn out the way you hoped. I think that this kind of happens to everybody, I know that it's happened to me loads of times. Sometimes some ideas only can go so far before they get kind of used up. I'm really glad that you found another widowed image that really worked for you, and that you were able to create a beautiful poem out of. Sometimes you think something's gonna turn out great, but later you realize that it wasn't that good to begin with. I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's not always your fault that a piece of writing doesn't turn out awesome, often there's nothing you can do with an idea.
-Kyle
I know what you mean when u say u didn't enjoy writing poetry. I have never been good at writing or just english in general. But I found it really interesting to hear that after the whole process you enjoyed it. Especially how you think that it actually helped improve your writing. It goes to show that practice does make perfect.
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