Six Minute Poem (in tersa rima) Connecting From Two Ends Ode to Twins On My Way Home |
When I searched through my binder to choose my five poems, I found that I really did not have strong many poems with form. I was able to find the needed three, but a number of my poems were from earlier in the semester before we discussed form and had been focused on other components of poetry. Examples, On My Way Home was a poem using imagery. I really hadn’t considered form when I wrote it. The same problem came with Connecting From Two Ends, the assignment was to use symbolism, and again, we had not discussed form. For this reason I picked three poems with no form and submitted them for peer editing and decided to pick the two least abysmal ones. I picked On my Way Home because I work-shopped it. I picked Connecting from two ends because the theme means a lot to me and at least it has a rhyme scheme. The poem I did not submit for this portfolio in the end was The Story of Cupid. I liked this poem because I like mythology and was enjoyed researching this for the valentines day assignment. Yet my partner said that the poem starts well and slows down. Sure enough I reread it and the first two lines are neat, they are rhythmic and have nice internal rhyme. But then the internal rhyme disappears and slows the poem down, and the second stanza comes in with no rhyme or reason other than the story of Cupid and Psyche. I really like the process of peer editing. I liked hearing what parts of the poem worked and what didn’t. It was good knowing what the reader gets out of my writing and whether or not it is what I meant. This however proved another challenge for poetry; by using so few words the chance of being misunderstood is much greater. This was hard for me to work with. In the workshop (On My Way Home), many came up with hidden meanings of self-deprivation and lack of control, when there was no meaning at all, just a slice of life. This poem was very difficult to edit since there were many conflicting opinions about what worked and what didn’t. Everything that was complimented was said by another to need improvement and vice versa. Overall I have found that I don’t like poetry. I find the form very constricting and uncomfortable. I have also never been particularly perceptive with symbolism, something necessary for such conciseness. |