Poetry

There are many similarities and differences on writing poetry and writing about poetry. I have to say that I had a better time writing poetry than writing about poetry. Writing about poetry was a little bit difficult to me because it has hard to interpret someone else’s poem. I explicated Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” even though it was an easy poem to interpret, the explication process of the poem was very difficult. I am not a huge fan of reading poetry or writing about poetry but I did have a great time writing the wrecking the first person poem and the found poem. Writing about poetry did help me write my own poetry a little bit. I am still getting used to the poetic forms and all of the terms. But I do not think that writing about poetry help me write my own poems. In future reference to teaching, I think that it is great to teach students a little bit about poetry and to do the same exercises that we have done in this class. I had a great time writing and presenting my poetry. I have written a couple more over spring break and I think that I really enjoy writing poetry more than writing about poetry. I think that teaching poetry is very important because most people do not enjoy reading poetry but I think that the students can get really creative writing their own poetry like Haiku’s, first person poem and also the found poem. I thought that the found poem was the easiest and also my most creative poem that I have written so far. This section on poetry has changed my perspective on the genre all together.