Reflective Blog

After winter term, I will never forget Ms. Lewis' poetry class. It was the best class I've ever taken in my 4 years. This class was full of laughter and smiles. I entered this class not knowing anything about poetry. All I knew was that each of the lines had to rhyme or It could be written in a haiku style. After taking this class, i learned alot of different literary styles such as parallelismus memborum, Brooks style, free verse, unusual typography and using metaphors in poetry. My favorite poem was the one where we had to go to walgreens and choose an object and write about it. After writing one poem, we also had to write a boiled down version. This made me realize that poems with the same meaning can be written in a short form and still sound good! My poem of "don't be silly, wrap your willy" really taught me how to write poetry. Boiling down my poem was a difficult task, but I managed to keep it the same scructure but just less words. My perspective of poetry had changed alot. When i stepped into the classroom, i thought all we would do was workshop day poems but instead, we learned alot about different poets and used their style to write a new poem everyday. My favorite was definetly E.e Cummings because her style of writing was really interesting and humorous! Overall, I really enjoyed this class alot! :)