Reflection

Please post reflections on your poetry composition here. Do not post your poems.

The main inspiration for my poem came to me when I was sitting at my desk on Monday afternoon, trying not to collapse from the heat. I was thinking about what other people in our class had written poems about in the past and the only poems I could think of were limericks and so I decided to write a limerick too. I think that if I had of performed my poem, it would have been fairly successful because I tried to make it as funny as I could. I think that I probably should have presented my poem to the class in a funnier manner because it wasn’t very interesting to listen to when ten or twenty other people had already performed theirs and they had to listen to another one. I think that I used good expression in my voice although I could have improved my pronunciation. By Emma M

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The main inspiration or idea for my poem was for someone to fake being sick so they didn’t have to go to school.The idea just came to me on the weekend randomly. To make it an effective poem for performance I would have used different voices for the different characters and used facial expressions and some actions. I don’t think it was a successful piece of performance because my idea for my poem wasn’t very good and wasn’t thought out very well. I could have thought it out better before I wrote it. To improve my poem and performance I will write a new poem so it will be much better for the poetry slam. =====

//My poem about a cat refusing to talk was inspired by my love for cats as well as my cat filled childhood. I grew up with 8 cats and have always been fascinated by talking animals. In order to add effect to the poem, I included emotions that the poet states and the reader can easily express through facial expressions and body language. I have also exaggerated some aspects so the performer can use emphasis on some parts of the poem, as well as onomatopoeia which completes the idea of ‘performance poetry’. After reading the poem aloud, I have found that there are more effects to the poem that I had realised and I could emphasise them even more with practise. Overall, I think I have written a good example of performance poetry which is very effective when performed aloud.//

The main inspiration for my poem was the movie “A few good men” which involves a court case. I didn’t make it for performing, I just wrote it, and it isn’t really suitable for performing anyway. Most of the poem is emotionless, and there aren’t any actions except for smiling. It’s all past tense. Since there wasn’t a performance it was just a reading, I don’t think there is anything I would change about my poem. It is very bleak, but if I changed it, the poem probably wouldn’t have the same bleak feel to it for the whole poem. Emma Burns

I was inspired through studding humorous poem and I wanted to create one myself. I also particularly enjoy writing about monsters and heroes. Both of these things are what gave me inspiration to create this poem. I made it rhyme to give it a sing song effect when reading aloud. I think my poem needs the correct expression and it would be more effective with actions and movement. I am happy with the poem I have written and it created the right effect. To improve my poem I think I could add more expressions and actions. Anna W