Reflection Essay

Reflection

            This unit of Poetry has really changed by outlook on certain things. I feel as now I am more versed on more aspects of life than I was before. For example my feelings towards art and an artist’s view of their painting have been bettered. I have a new found respect for artists. I have been able to explore different types of poetry and learn what I like and do not like. I love Slam poetry because of the emotion is and the rap like features it has. I dislike sonnets and villanelles because of the strict structure of the poem. I feel that now I am an out of the box writer who does not need a structure to be creative. I like to be different, to structure things differently, and to come up with abnormal ideas.

            Poetry has given me a chance to express myself. I have all this love, hatred, and feeling inside of me for so long that life was becoming confusing. Poetry gave me the imperative outlet to express all of these emotions. I feel better about these past situations and was able to put a closure on past relationships and failures. I am a person defined by sports and love, and it seem like there was a pattern in my poetry writing with the topics being mostly about love and sports. Sports is my passion, it is all I have ever known since I was little. I see something and relate it to sports and was able to metaphorically put it into a poem. Now love is something that effects my life. I have lost those that I have loved and I have strengthen relationships and gained love for those who are still around me. Love and sports, a common theme in my writing because they are my passion and what I know best about, they are things that defines who I truly am. 

            Now in the one movie we watched Slam I learned that the power of words, is forceful and strong like a hurricane. A man finds himself in a situation he had never thought he would be put in. Life was crumbling before him and it seemed like all he knew was lost, except for the words and emotion he had inside. His slam spoke to people, made those troubled people rethink their lives, to find a new path. His words were also able to change his life. Where he said all these words, it took him much time to believe in the words he was saying. This is where I am moved by the movie, that I not only do I say these words, I believe in them, I live by them, and most importantly what I learned is I am passionate about my poems, they are me.