This week we worked on work-shopping again. Since we had previously done work-shopping in another class, this time it was a lot easier to jump right in and start helping with others revisions. In my small group we talked about how we cannot imagine revising a piece three different times. We definitely think that this will prove to be a bit of a challenge, but am hoping that the finish protect reflects mastery in the poems aesthetics. We also began to meet in our literary groups, which is proving to be a lot more work then I would have imagined constructing a lit journal would be, but a lot of work does go into it all!
From this week’s work- shopping, I was reminded of the idea of en media res, which I think I will use to partially revise one of my poems. This idea of starting in the middle of a story at the beginning of the poem, I think will add a lot of depth to the poem by allowing the reader to instantly become engaged in the work and start it “in the middle of things”. In addition to this, reading the other people’s poetry allowed me to see that there are so many different ways to create and write poetry and that the subject matter is not in any way restricted, covering a vast array of different subject matters.
After this week, I am beginning to realize the true extent of the artistic process when it comes to poetry and fictional work. Coming up and brainstorming subject ideas, seems the easiest. Then from there pre-writing by a free-write, characterization chart, or beginning to just construct a poem. After the initial poem is written, the revisions on it can begin. From our work-shopping in class, it seems as though through editing and having other people read the work before or after a few revisions can really help the poet zero in on how they can improve their work. Other readers, can point out flawed thinking or confusing ideas or images in their poem and help to eventually better the poem to its full extent.
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