I honestly had no idea how detailed and technical poetry could be. I always assumed poetry is just expressing yourself in a creative way, whether in song or in a story. Being in class, and learning how to write in the different styles of poetry is making me appreciate it even more. Poetry does take a lot of time and thinking and your end result usually comes out good, becasue it is YOUR way of expressing yourself. I realized that the content of what I write is freely up to me, but there is such a variety of ways on how I could do it. For one, I am learning how to write poetry and not always make it rhyme; our muse work helps me do this pretty well. The challenging aspects is when we are given a task like writing in iambic pentameter or things like that. Tasks like that make me realize that wow, poetry is more than just writing how I feel today.
Overall, I like learning the "behind the scenes" concept of poetry; that it takes more to make a good poem a great poem.
Prior to this class I also had no idea how detailed poetry could be. I had thought that it was mainly free verse and overlooked everything that goes into iambic pentameter and writing with meter. I agree that this class is helping me to appreciate poetry as well as the time that is put into many poems. After doing some of the meter exercises it has made me appreciate poetry with meter- because I've learned at least for me it's not that easy to write something I like while following meter.
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree. Learning the behind the scenes concepts of poetry makes you appreciate it even more. The only thing I find myself doing more, is overanalyzing my writing. Usually, i would write and not edit. However, now I try to determine whether it is iambic, or metric free verse.
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