Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Critiques
A few weeks ago, when we first started sharing our poetry with each other during classtime, I was really nervous about critiques. To top things off, I was in the first group, and was the first to present my poem. I think that I was most nervous because I felt like a "beginner" poet in comparison to the other people in the class. I hadn't had a lot of experience with writing poetry, and although often times it seemed like a breeze to understand the different approaches to the poetry langauge we went over in class, I just couldn't seem to get comfortable with the thought of having to share my work. I was pretty surprised with the aftermath of sharing my poem. Nobody was judgmental and I great deal of feedback that would later help me to revise my poems. I learned some very helpful things about how to improve my poems, and to top it all off, my nervous energy about presenting had basically dissapeared.
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I also loved being critiqued. I say this because so many different personalities are in our workshops and are able to give you feedback based on their thoughts. For instance, someones comments helped me a great deal to finish a stanza that I was having trouble on. Many thoughts are better than one.
ReplyDeleteMy experience was a bit different. I'd say that thanks to the workshop, my poetry has indeed significantly improved, but I feel largely disheartened about my work. I never thought I was a brilliant poet, but still, I look back on much of my poetry with shame.
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