Dance Self-Analysis

My goal in this assignment was to portray the struggles I faced with trying to pursue dancing, yet despite the odds, I succeeded in joining the competition team to follow my dreams. Once I realized that I loved dance, I was too old because girls usually start to train seriously at a young age. The older, competition girls who danced their choreography for us inspired me and instilled a passion for dance in me, but I was already eleven. So, this assignment tries to display the struggle and rejection I had to overcome with dedication and devotion to dance in order to prevail in my journey.

The first three stanzas only have one or two words per line. However, the last line of the fourth stanza and the last stanza visually show more words. Similar

First, in the beginning stanzas where my journey of pursuing dance was not succeeding, I did not capitalize the letter “i” when referring to myself. The lowercase letter “i” appears like the letter is lost because it is so tiny, and it looks as if it should be connected to another word. Like the lowercase “i”, when I kept facing rejection, I felt a little lost, and I wondered if I really missed out on my opportunity to dance because of my age. However, with “Dedication” and “Devotion”, I found my way and succeeded in my goals. I chose to capitalize the D in dedication and devotion to almost personify these verbs. Without dedication and devotion, I could not have succeeded, so by capitalizing these verbs, I intended to acknowledge their importance and how these verbs led the way in my journey. Also, whenever I talked of rejection in the poem, I placed the word in all capital letters. Visually, those words grow bigger than the rest of the feeble stanzas. The juxtaposition of the tiny stanzas and all capitalized words highlights how rejection made me grow as a dancer. Without the rejection that fueled my dedication and devotion for dance, I could not have grown technically or emotionally as a