work shop on assignment #9

I really enjoyed workshopping the first four assignment #9 on Tuesday. It was very interesting to see the characters that people chose to write about and how they shared that characters point of view and feelings through their poem. I was surprised how many people took stories that they had heard recently and decided to write a poem in which an individual from that story was the narrator. I found this assignment to be my favorite assignment thus far because it was refreshing to write from the point of view of someone completely different from yourself. It was fun to add details from their life and write about their characteristics that were very different from anything that I would write about when writing a poem from my point of view. It was challenging however to provide information in the poem that would provide insight into the thoughts and attitudes of the narrator. Creating a tone in a poem when writing from the point of view of a character that is very different from your self was somewhat difficult and at times left me wondering if what I was writing was believable. I am excited to workshop the assignment #9s from the other members of my workshop group.