Writing and Creating

To be honest, when started this section of our class, I thought that study of myth was much easier at first. After all, everyone at some point in their life has heard one of these myths, specially when it comes to Greek mythology. When it came time for the group project I actually had fun, the section that I was reading was really interesting and I even recognized some of the information from previous classes. I also liked the fact that with reading these myths, we can actually learn different things from other cultures and different parts of the world. (I really did find some of the myths that we read to be fascinating!). However, I almost did have a mini heart attack when I found out that we had to create our own myth. Now, that was something that I absolutely knew nothing about! I did think about the project for a while and didn’t know where to start, but then I saw the other side of the project, the fact that I had total control of this creation. I could make the myth whatever I wanted to be, and that I think is the best. My attitude did change about the project and I really did have fun coming up with a myth and a story to go along with it. I loved having total control over the writing project, and from what I read on the webct written by others I could tell that most people loved this project as well.

Poetry!

There is no doubt in my mind that writing poetry and writing about poetry are two different things; however, I think that each of these tasks do help us with the other. I’m not much of a poetry writer, and I feel more comfortable writing about a poem and analyzing it, I actually think it’s interesting. A single word in a poem can have more than few meaning and it is up to us to figure out which one is the best. The same can be a problem when it comes to writing poetry, this time we have to be careful with the words that we choose, and hope that the reader understands the meaning the way that we intended for it to be. I honestly used to hate writing poetry, but I’m starting to warm up to it. Writing poetry is not a daunting task anymore and sometimes I even think it’s fun. This is the only time in writing when we can feel truly free, there is no restriction, we can use what ever words that we want, use our own format, and when it comes to punctuation we don’t have to worry about the poem being grammatically correct. The poem can be and mean whatever we want it to be. As a writer we have complete control of the final product and that is the best part. But I feel that when it comes to writing about poetry there are sometimes many restriction that we have to consider, we need to make sure that the poet is understood and we need to look at every word, every punctuation, and every mark. Taking the wrong meaning from just one word in a poem can mess up the whole thing and that can be very annoying. Now back to the top, I do think that both of these tasks help with the other, when writing poetry it helps us think about how each individual word can work differently in a poem, and how it can relate to other words in the same poem. This helps us when we’re writing about poetry, it gives a chance and helps us to look deeper into the meaning of a poem and its format.