Thinking About My Poetry
Write a blog post in which you discuss how your thinking has changed about poetry in the last few weeks. What is the most important insight you have gained? Poetry has always been really important to me. Writing that out feels cheesy, but it's true. My mom used to write poetry, which my grandfather used to bind into small books for her to look back on later, and she used to read me poems all the time when I was younger. I always thoroughly enjoyed poetry units in younger grades, so I was really looking forward to starting this year with something I could look forward to. This poetry unit has been very different so far, mostly because we're focusing less on technicalities/devices (like diction, rhyme, alliteration, etc) and more on the actual content of the poem and it's significance (to the author and the reader). I didn't know how to feel about this focus at first, since I don't usually think about how or what I'm writing when I write poetry, but I'm defin...
