Blog Entry #3

This week we learn about worn cliché and to avoid them at all cost when composing a poem. I also learned about apostrophe and synesthesia. I learned how to properly annotate a poem. I was at first confused as how to annotate a poem; I had no clue as to what to mark or point out when I annotated the first poem.
I was lost at first when on Wednesday we, in class, were annotating "How to Love Your Father". I read it and read it again, but the poem did not really interest me. I was following along as we annotated the poem to get a better feel for the poem. As my peers mentions more and more details of the poem, I slowly began to form my idea of as what the poem is really about. It wasn't until it was brought up that maybe the father, from the poem, mistreated his son ,the writer, and that was what finally got to me. I found it interesting how the poem was interpret and the steps taken to reach the interpretation.
I see creativity as something that can be worked on. As the creating poems assignments continue, I feel them getting easier to write. I figured out that, for me anyways, it better for the poem to come out naturally from the mind onto a piece a paper. In this state, the poem is in a raw form and must constantly be reconfigured until it fullfills the requirement and feels right.