Marika's post was about finding a widowed image for her poem, and her struggles in making her poem just the way she wants it.
"Marika,
One thing about your post really struck me. The first was you talking about having a "brief, concise poem filled with depth and loads of images and meanings open to interprataion". Your not the only one who wants that, I would love to have my poem be exactly that. But like yours, it's not. I'm going to keep striving for that, but (not to sound pessimistic) I've realized that I can't create that perfect poem in one revision. But mine (and I bet yours too) is getting better every revision. And hopefully sometime soon, it'll be just that. And yours will be too.
-Kyle"
Emily's post was also about our poetry assignment, and how her first version of her poem didn't work out, but the second one did.
"Emily,
About the first draft of your poem-- I think it just happens sometimes when you write something, review it, get other people to look at it, etc, but it still doesn't turn out the way you hoped. I think that this kind of happens to everybody, I know that it's happened to me loads of times. Sometimes some ideas only can go so far before they get kind of used up. I'm really glad that you found another widowed image that really worked for you, and that you were able to create a beautiful poem out of. Sometimes you think something's gonna turn out great, but later you realize that it wasn't that good to begin with. I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's not always your fault that a piece of writing doesn't turn out awesome, often there's nothing you can do with an idea.
-Kyle"
Metacognition: My Poem
While writing my poem, I think that the most important realization came about when I realized that two characters were necessary in poem. The two characters were necessary in order to explain the main character's story. Though originally, only the main, male character was necessary to the story, eventually the female character became involved, and it could be argued that she became just as important. Their stories weren't just to explain the other's anymore, they were both extremely important, and both held their own lesson. It took me a long time to understand this, it was more of a slow realization than an "ahah" moment. This whole thought process came about solely because of having to do a revision, and getting feedback on poem. The decision to add another character came to fruition because of my feedback to make the main character's story further. It's possible that there might have been another way to do thought, but I can't think of one that would keep the integrity of the poem the same, and I really like the way that it turned out.
