This past week has been more eye opening than I had anticipated. I never really liked listening to people recite poems or even write them myself. I always felt like there was just too much structure when it came to what I wanted to write versus what the structure said I should want to write. I never really gave much thought to the idea of poems because I already knew a song with rhythm was basically a poem and it was the only type I'd wanted to hear. Writing about yourself can be difficult because instead of writing your personality into a character you have to directly write about you and your hopes or your failures and this can be and is pretty daunting most of the time. I guess there's just nothing to hide behind when writing about yourself and it's always hard for me to be so honest about me. Creative writing has always come pretty easily to me and I think it's in part because I like to use my experiences to portray character development and story but instead of using what actually happened in my life I like to most of the time use what I would've wanted an outcome to be or an outcome that could've happened rather than what actually did. This week has honestly just given me new perspective to story telling and I kinda like poetry now, especially after being able to write some of my own. Poems don't have to be as structured as I thought and I think that's been a huge relief to me. I hope that as this trimester continues, I'll soak in as much as I can, I've found a greater appreciation for writing throughout this school year and I can't wait to see where it ultimately takes me. Poetry is Language at it's most Distilled and most Powerful - Rita Dove www.creative-writing-now.com/poem-structure.html
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