Reflection Essay

In each poem, I chose a different story to reflect an event that occurred in my life or a theme to deliver to my audience. For example, for the extended metaphor poem, I chose the topic of forgiveness and how it can heal our souls and help us move forward in our life. Therefore, I picked a simple metaphor, a feather, the structure of the feather and its common association with light weight helped in picturing the effect of forgiveness on ones soul. However, It was hard to associate the idea of the feature to different images and at the same time be explicit to the readers. This was shown in my draft, in which the association of forgiveness to feathers was complex to narrate and reflect my theme. In this draft, the complexity of expressing

First, Is my work leaves an impact on you when you read. Are you able to connect to my theme easily? In other words, is my writing explicit? Finally, what do you miss in poetry that you would like to see in my future poems?

Even though, I wasn 't able to obtain many critiques from my peers, I was more inspired by their writing techniques and how they expressed themselves. Additionally, some of the books poem were able to guide me in choosing the format of my poem and after some analysis of different poems, I was able to understand the backbone of poetry. For instance, Kim Addonizio 's poem, " For You", helped me in the occasional poem writing process. In other words, it helped me in the understanding of the use of vivid images.

Some of the aspects that I found difficult were coming up with a original idea and avoid using cliché. Since English is not my first language, I found it hard to express myself without using cliché. Most of my expression comes from the daily repetition of the most commonly used words. However, I was able to improve my ability to express my thoughts differently, after writing a couple of poems. However, the most satisfying aspect of this section was the ability to express myself