Olivares_Larson/Maier Discussion quote_02/14/13

Poetry is what I was taught back in elementary school, and middle school, and high school, but it was never something that was truly mine. I didn't write poems on my own free will. I didn't even read many poems. And yet the poetic style and structure was pushed on me when I felt that I didn't even want to write a poem. It wasn't until this past Fall that my view on poetry changed drastically. Love That Dog was a book we read during my English 341 class that portrayed a fictional young boy that we could relate to. He didn't want to write poems because he thought he couldn't. And yet his teacher showed him that writing poems was more than just making words rhyme. It was more than having similes and metaphors, personification and hyberboles. In the same way Professor Kittle showed me the joy of reading and writing poetry. I got interested and wrote in different styles of poetry that were presented. Now I even have a favorite style of poetry, the Sestina. I even wrote a Sestina for my girlfriend this Valentine's day. Can't wait to give it to her this weekend