Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Portfolio Revisions
I started working on my portfolio a few nights ago, and upon reading the rules learned that our poems need not just be revised- but changed dramatically. I thought this would be really hard for me, because I seem to love my initial work and don't want to change much other than a few words and punctuation/spelling errs. I now have to change some of them, I've tried putting them in stanzas which is something I never do. I really had to push myself in order to revise those first few poems, but now that I have, I really enjoy almost completely re-writing them. Once read again, I found that I can find a more particular voice and create a whole new poem with some of my favourite lines or parts and keep the theme relatively the same, I was really afraid that I would have to change them completely but it turns out it's not that hard at all. I'm glad I really got to experiment and learn how to do this in this class, because it was one horrible habit of mine.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I totally agree! At first I didn't want to revise my poems, because I liked them as is. But after reading through everyone's comments about them, it felt as though the class was helping me revise them. The poems turned out to be totally different than the originals, and I actually liked them better at the end.
ReplyDeleteIt really is true that revising poems can help you connect more to the poem than you may have while you first wrote them. the class critiques definately helped to spark some great ideas, as well as researching for the presentation. I agree that using a few of the methods learned in class were really helpful in bringing clarity to a few of my revisions!
ReplyDelete