Reflection of the class

At the beginning of poetry class I didn't really have an idea what poetry is. I thought I would have to know a lot about the different kinds and styles of poetry to be able to write my own one. Well, I was wrong.

Over the weeks I started to discover a new site of myself and poetry. I have to admit that on our first workshop day in class, when Mrs. Lewis said: "So, then just start writing." I was really stunned and thought: "What? They want me to write something? But I don't know how, I don't know any styles, Aahhhhh!!"

Well, and that was the thing I did wrong.I don't really need to know a lot of styles or rules or anything to write poetry. Poetry is all about myself and my feelings and not about any program I have to fit in. After I discovered that, it became much easier for me to write poetry and I even started to enjoy it. Also the class and the people there helped me a lot because no one laughed about the other and we always got a great feedback. Also the fact that everyone was writing poetry made it much easier because so I didn't think about it a lot and just did it.

But of course we didn't write the whole time. Learning about the single poets, their life and their style was also very interesting for me and helped me to see poetry and poems with different eyes.

The change of my poetry, is also very obvious.

In the beginning of the class I tried really hard to make everything rhyme. Of course that is not always bad, but it made it very difficult for me to express myself and stopped my flow. My poem "With twenty fife" is a very good example for that:

With twenty fife, so far away,
I want to go and not just stay.
Will go to see, explore the world,
to be were no one's been before.
Will learn and laugh to find my way,
that's all I just can say, today.

At the and of class, however, I got to understand that it doesn't always have to rhyme but that the rhyme just comes along by itself waiting for us to pick it up. In the last poems I wrote, it is easy to see that they are more myself. I was able to enjoy writing them more and to express myself better. My poem "Still there" is a good example for he development of my poetry writing:

A people picture, picture people,
up and down and to the sides.
Full of color, full of black.
Lots of figures, long and short,
lips and eyes and hair and hand.
The same we are.
The same after all.

So, I think now I have said everything. All in all, I really enjoyed that class and it helped me to see and express myself better. It also taught me a lot about different people in different times and how they experienced poetry. It was like a little window to the head of someone else.