Revision Process-Jackie Loveland

Now that I am starting to revise my poems, I truly see how much I learned throughout this course. When I was reading through some of the first pieces that I wrote during the year I actually started to laugh about how different they sound to the ones I wrote towards the end of the year. Now that I know that poetry it not just about rhyming and that rhyming is basically not even encouraged at all, I have a whole new look at poetry. The first thing that I started to look at in my old poems, were how I can break the lines up to make the poem sound better. I also found it shocking how different the poem sounds and how sometimes the meaning changed once I added in line breaks and pause in order to revise some of my poems. Another thing that I learned is that I actually do like poems without rhyme a lot better. I even started to take a lot of the rhymes that I did have in my poems out and I feel like the poems just flow together nicely now. I feel that when I tried to rhyme, a lot of mine lines were forced just so that the last two words in the lines would rhyme. Once I took out the rhyme, I felt like the poem gain a lot more imagery and emotion.