A Peaches Journey Poem:
Reflection:
Although my poem was quite short, the amount of time this assignment
took was longer than I thought it would take me. We had specific requirements
to meet when doing this poem which made it harder to achieve. I chose
to an A, B, A, B pattern (meaning every other last word needs to rhyme),
with a 3, 4, 3, 4 beat pattern. I wanted to make sure I had a very good
poem to make up for the marks I’ve received in the past. I used Communication
\when presenting my poem, using expression, pace, rhythm, and volume.
My strength in poetry is “rhythm”, this was used when presenting the poem.
It is not easy for everyone to keep a beat, but I did piano, so this was
an advantage for me. Something I could improve on is making the poem longer
because it was only 3 stanzas. Many others were much longer, but because I
wanted to make each stanza “perfect”, the assignment took longer than expected.
I used critical thinking when trying to rhyme and keep the rhythm as you needed
to continue to edit the piece until you were happy. Finding the words were
difficult for me because I have a small vocabulary. Creative thinking was
used when coming up with an idea, it’s the first thing you need to do for
this assignment requiring a story, theme, and characters. I used a peach for
my character as I was hungry for fruit, nothing else came to mind and so I
went through with the idea. Overall I felt like this assignment was the
easiest of the semester because even though it took time, you needed good
poetry skills to have a good end product.