Blog Blog (Get it, like “Blah Blah”)

I know I just posted that extra blog entry.... but here I am again, posting my blog for this week.

I agree! Group 2 rocks! I really enjoyed reading all of your poems and preparing to workshop them. It was fun to finally get to see what kinds of poem people in our own class write. I especially enjoyed seeing how differently everyone interpreted the same assignment. Each poem was totally different! I love that! We have some really great poets in our class! It was fun to workshop poems that we are going to get to actually discuss with the author… I think it will be a great experience to receive feedback on my poetry from people in the class.

I know we are discussing Assignment 1 this week, but I also want to comment a little bit on Assignment 2. I guess I am not the only one that had a hard time with that assignment (although it felt like I was the only one struggling with it while I was trying to come up with a good poem idea). I had a hard time trying to portray a narrative backwards. I kept getting confused. I also wasn’t really sure if I captured the heart of the assignment in my poem. However, I did enjoy writing a poem that was pretty light-hearted and fun for assignment 2. I also tried using some rhyme, which was a fun technique as well. It was definitely a challenge to write this poem and I think it will be really helpful to workshop them next week in class. It’s nice to know that I wasn’t the only one feeling a bit uneasy about my poem. Maybe Assignment 3 will come a bit easier… I guess we’ll see.

That’s all for now… see you tomorrow everyone!