I can say in all honesty that, as a man who cannot and never will claim he is a poet, I enjoyed the first poem assignment of the year. However, as noted on that very piece of paper, there could definitely be some changes made to it. I know we are going to do summaries of the who, what, when, why, where and how on all of these poems so I’ll try not to get too into that portion. Though I will go as far as saying that the poem is based off a story I’ve had in my head for a while. One of many in fact. Many of these stories take their themes from some of societies’ best poets; musicians. A poem could never encompass all that I have planned for that particular story, but I will try as hard as I can to make sure there are no “cop-outs” in the final product while still maintaining the overall theme and let the audience know it’s base.
And for being a non-poet in a class spending a significant amount of time deep in poetry, I also had fun with the second poem, based off probably one of my most vivid childhood memories. My sister has always told me of how rare it is for people to picture the image of a memory in their heads (even though I feel it’s much more common than she lets on) and she doesn’t believe me when I say I can. I believe this poem really helped me to make a strong counter argument.
