Final Portfolios

How is everyone doing on there final portfolios? As you look back on your more recent poems have you seen an improvement compared to the poems you wrote in the beginning? I remember walking into the classroom and not being able to understand was a muse was. It is interesting to me when I look back on the poems I wrote first weeks of class. Now I can see so many changes I can make to them and how I can make them better and improve them. It was sort of hard to come up with eight poems at first because so many of my beginning ones I feel like are not good enough. However, these are the poems I can make a bunch of revisions on, so it is perfect for the portfolio. I thought making revisions was going to be very difficult. Once I started to improve ones I am surprised and relieved to see how easy it is. The fact that we had workshop definitely helped. I feel like I do sort of the same style of writing throughout the majority of my poems, so it kind of helps me on all of them.