✈️ Blog Post #2: Personalized Poetry
Hi everyone,
When it comes to writing your own poetry, I think most can recognize that it has a distinctly different feel when compared to simply reading poetry. In class, I could tell that people really poured their heart and soul into their own writing/craft, whereas if we were to perform other pieces of poetry that weren’t ours, it simply wouldn’t be the same. In terms of my experience, I wrote about my travels from this summer (go figure), so I felt that I had an intense connection to the experiences from the summer and was able to convert at least some of that same magic onto the page. Poetry is such a vast medium in that there are so many ways to go about performing/writing it that makes it so personal, and I think everyone that performed this past week did excellent jobs at giving us a look into their minds.
Writing about poetry informed my own poetry in ways like purposefully utilizing poetic devices such as alliteration and repetition. Having deeply analyzed a poem just the week before, jumping into my own work and critiquing it myself before performing it really helped in giving me confidence to perform it in front of people. I think I can use this kind of tactic in my own teachings later in life, as I think it is important to be comfortable working with poetry before beginning to write your own (much less perform it). Being familiar with the different types of poetry, poetic devices, and poetic structures is crucial to becoming a successful poet, therefore I believe it best for students to gain such experience beforehand.
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Hi Daniel,
ReplyDeleteI agree with the notion that writing your own poetry has such a different energy than just reading someone else’s work. There’s something special about putting your personal experiences and emotions on the page, and at class on Tuesday, I could really see that in how everyone poured their heart into their poems during the performances in a variety of ways. It sounds like your travels over the summer gave you a strong connection to your piece, and that definitely adds to the magic of it. I think it is important how you mentioned using poetic devices like alliteration and repetition on purpose. It’s intriguing to see how analyzing poetic elements beforehand helped shape your writing. After going over the different poems in class, it made me more mindful of the choices I was making in my own work. I believe that helping students get comfortable with the basics of poetry before diving into writing their own can make the whole process feel less intimidating. It’s integral for them to understand the tools they have at their disposal so they can feel more confident expressing themselves in a more abstract way.
Hey Daniel!
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree with the feel of an individual performing their own pome vs. ones read in class. I think thats due to the emotional connection that is being poured on paper. I realized myself that when we write about poetry after actually performing a personal one is an interesting feeling. We realize that we become our own biggest critic. The way we analyze another individuals piece of work is how we analyze ourself as we write about poetry. I agree with bringing importance to poetry. Students tend to focus on the factual and critical thinking of works and tend to lose the idea that there are pieces of work and different types of literature such as poetry itself. Even performing the poem can give a boost of confidence and may even help students who tend to shy away from being social to have a chance to speak their mind. Poetry can bring out the creative side to students that is usually hidden when it comes to the papers and prompts that are usually given.
Hi Daniel. I like how you talked about how writing about poetry influenced the way you went about writing your own poem. I definitely felt that I had to think a little more due to the fact that delving into the process of taking apart a poem and explaining how the writer gets his points across made sure poetry was fresh on my mind. I think it was a good exercise for writing my own poem because personally, I hadn't written a poem in quite a long time and just getting back into it would have been fairly sudden. I also think it's great that you found confidence in reading your poem out loud to the class. It was quite nerve racking, I agree yet it was a satisfying feeling to put forth something I'd been working on and I had been eager to see what it was like to allow a work leave the confines of a page or word document. I also think it's important to learn about poetic devices and the characteristics of poems that make each of them distinct.
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