Working With Words and Writing Poems

🏎️ How might I write poetry that I enjoy and shows who I am?

This was the driving question for the project “Working With Words” I was really confused, worried, and muddled when I found out what the project was about. We had to write a book full of poems using different poem techniques and using different types of poetry. The poems had to relate to our worldview and they each had to have a theme. It sounds complex, which it was until I figured out how to write a good poem. I wouldn’t exactly call myself a poet, but some of the poems I wrote were actually pretty good. But how did I get here? What did my poems look like? What was the progress of writing them? Allow me to explain.

Simile Poem

This was the first poem that I wrote in this project. It was probably one of the easiest because I just compared my worldview to different things.

Extended Metaphor Poem

I wrote my extended metaphor poem on flames because I think that it represents poetry well and it shows who I am as a person. This was one of the hardest ones to write and I made sure to put in lots of time on it. The flames aspect really helped describe what poetry meant to me but it was hard to write because I had to compare poetry to fire and they are similar and also very different.

Sound Poem

For the sound poem I wrote about playing soccer because it’s a very big part of my life and it’s very important to me. I put in all the different sounds that come whit playing soccer, which wasn’t hard because I play so much soccer. It was definitely on of the easiest poems to write because I didn’t have to think about it very much, I just had to write sounds down that related to soccer and I had to explain how it related to my worldview. Here’s what I said: “This represents my worldview because soccer is a large part of my worldview. This is because I value going outside and saying in good shape and being with friends and working towards something. I included parts such as talking to my friends and saying hi to them because friends are a important part”

Haikus:

We had to write three Haikus that related to our Worldview. Haikus are written in lines in patterns of 5 syllables 7 syllables and then 5 syllables. I wrote mine on what it’s like to be asleep when it’s raining and about walking on to a soccer pitch. This was difficult because we had to follow some rules, but I eventually got the hang of it and it was actually pretty easy!

Found Poem

For the found poem, we had to take a piece of writing and turn it into a poem by taking things out and moving them around. I took the piece of text from the hobbit. It was hard because we had to take things out and make a poem. This was hard because every little detail mattered and we needed to write it using correct grammar and punctuation. We could only add two words to make it fit together, so it was really hard.

Experience Poem

For this section, we had to write a poem based on an experience. This was quite easy to do because I had to write about an experience I had and make it in a poem. I did it on a movie theatre. Just like all my poems, I had to say why it related to my worldview and here’s what I said: The theme was think twice before you do something that may be dangerous or it can cause you harm. I chose this because it was an experience that really stood out to me.

About Me Video

For our about me video, we had to make it about us and the things we enjoy doing. I made one where I talked about the things I like doing and a more engaging video one.

Poetry Book

we had to put all of our poems into a book that displayed all of the poems that we wrote.

 

Conclusion 

This was one of the shortest projects at PLP so far! Even though it was mainly focused on writing, it was still very fun! It seemed to go by so fast and I definitely learnt a lot. This blog post definitely did not capture how much we did in the short time period so that’s why we put all of our poems in a book! Thank you so much for reading this and I hope you read some of my other posts! Bye!! 👋