Danny Brill 11/18/09 Ms. Natt Poetry Reflection Poetry and me don’t mix. I’ve never have the slightest interest in reading or writing poems. As a kid, I enjoyed reading the popular children’s books, like Dr. Suess and the book “Goodnight Moon”, but mostly because of the pictures. I have to admit, poems rhyme good and reading them is relaxing, but writing them is dreadful. Looking for two words that sound good together and following all those rules makes it very hard to even be patient. I have to admit that through this past unit, I have been able to deal with not getting frustrated, while writing poems. I am more familiar with most of the poem types and the rules for each one, but I’m not so good at rhyming, while trying to get my point across at the same time. This seems like the longest unit, but its relieving that its finally over. The rules involving writing poems is just stressful, because you need to match words, while also making sure they actually make sense. One of my challenges through this unit was coming up with words from my vocabulary in order to create few sentences that rhymed. I also suffered from getting frustrated so quickly, when I was stuck thinking in my head” What word rhymes with this? Think! Think!” It was extremely stressful when we had such a short time limit to finish our poems, like this for example, if it was due at the end of the class, I would be rushing to finish it, but that’s not the correct way to finish it. Going to the Art Museum in Chicago and writing about the pictures we saw made it easier, because we were given a subject from the start. Free-writes got me good, when I couldn’t even think of a legit subject to write about. This unit has really made me think about myself as a writer. I had many cool experiences while writing my poems. I now discovered my true potential as a writer. I’ve learned how important each poem is, because I never realized how each individual poem, contains its own special message, whether two sentences or 10 pages long. Some poems can mean the most obvious things, while others are so hard to uncover the true meaning, making it necessary to read the poem multiple times and slowing down. However, it was pretty difficult for me to learn how to affiliate the meaning and decide where, and how I’m going to say it. I forgot to mention that I really enjoyed this experience, for the fact that I learned so much about myself. I never knew how much of a great writer I was, until this unit. I also never discovered how
much potential I had within me, there is so much that I can learn about myself, by just trying new things out for once. I never would have discovered my true talent of writing, without this unit. Poems are not my best subject, but I have learned to cope with them and learn about how to write them easier. Watching movies about poems is intriguing and fascinating, because of how people can be so passionate and up-beat about the art of poems. I, myself find poems very boring, but beautiful. I have learned to deal with them as they are and highly enjoyed this unit. I look forward for more exciting units up ahead in this class and I hope I can, or will try to enjoy them more than I enjoyed this one. Poems aren’t my thing, but it was a great experience.