My Experiences with Poetry

      I personally like poetry, it is a gateway for emotions but not always sad, sappy poems. There are types of poems that people don't know about and I think everybody will like some type of poetry. when I was younger my parents didn't really introduced me to poems, but many nursery rhymes. I just remember reading Shel Silverstein poems in his "large" books and showing how funny the type of writing was.

     First time I worked on poetry thoroughly was when I made multiple haiku's in 5th grade. Mine mostly consisted of bugs and nature.In middle school I really got to work with poetry and making my own original poems. In my 8th grade language arts class we made a poetry book including 2 poems by known poets and 10 poems made by me. As I'm looking at one of the poems I wrote, I remembered sitting at the front of the classroom thinking of what to write then, I saw the buses enter, the trees, the sun reflecting off of everything and started writing. Looking back on that, I realize it is simple to be motivated if you really wanted to. when my 8th grade teacher graded my poetry book, she added that I had "great imagery throughout" . I think I just loved to describe things I see, hear, touch, feel, and smell it's very easy but the way you describe something is interesting. 

     Ninth grade, our class started analyzing poetry, and I have notice that I chosen Emily Dickinson in middle school and my second choice for reciting poetry. I did poetry out loud, my class and school recitation was "part for the whole" by Robert Francis. It was fun learning different ways to express my poem and make certain parts of it more dramatic.

     Poetry is representing something and looking at something in a different direction, then you might see in person. I like deciphering poems and looking over different styles of poets. when I heard we were doing poetry, I was kind of happy. However, I don't think from the poems we read in class are going to motivating or going to move someone.