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This week, we continued talking about music and the role in can play in different types of poems. On Wednesday, our poems that we broke down line by line were due, and the class split into different groups as we shared our own work, while also listening to our classmates work. It was an interesting assignment to me, especially after I heard multiple students work, simply because they were all different in some way. Next, we talked about concrete and abstract words. I learned that abstract words are words like love, jealously, and fear. These words have strong meaning, but are not words one can see, touch, hear, taste, or smell, which is exactly what concrete words are, such as warm apple pie, or bang!

Currently, I am working on writing my blues poem in the correct format; which includes, three line stanza, twelve beats/syllables per line, having the first two lines be either the same, or line two with a little variation, and lastly, having line three rhyme with line one. Although writing a blues poem sounds exciting, I have found it to be more difficult than I expected. For me, the twelve beats/syllables per line has been my biggest struggle. For the class as a whole, I enjoy being able to share my work with other students, who can then give me feedback, and help me improve in needed areas, and I also like listening to the different poems my classmates write, allowing me to use their techniques and creativity in my own writings.

While trying to write my blues poem, I have noticed that creativity is much needed. In order to write in the style of any author I believe it not only makes the writing assignment more challenging, but also makes us students examine the artistic process. Some authors do not have any guidelines in writing their poetry, allowing it to be a widespread variety, while other authors have many different guiding principles, allowing all their poems to be similar in a way, but yet different at the same time. Most importantly, this week I noticed how critical inspiration can be, when it comes to writing poetry.