Well, I finished the first stage of my project back in June. I studied 20 poets and wrote a total of 59 poems. For the past week, I have been editing the poems that I saw potential in. There are 28 of those, of varying styles and for various purposes. Some of them I intend to look for publication on online journals and whatnot, some of them I will stick to publishing myself on my own blog, and some of them are just very personal poems that I don’t want to share with the world just yet. I think my artistic poems were centered more at the beginning and in the middle. Close to the end, my poetry started becoming much more prose-like, but still very honest. Most of my best poetry is free verse, but I do have a pantoum and an ode that I really liked, as well as some rhyming poetry that turned out well. I also think I could turn one of the poems into a spoken word performance, which I was not expecting at all.
August 7, 2014 by
As I near the conclusion of my project, I am very excited about all that I have learned throughout the summer. I could not be happier with my decision to pursue a Freshman Monroe Project and the opportunity that was subsequently granted to me. Added benefits aside, I realize that all I really needed to motivate me to do this research was a deadline and the expectation from others that I would not waste their time and resources. Although my project started out kind of rocky (it took me weeks to finally settle on a topic), I hope that the finished product reflects the time that my advisor and I have put into it and the excitement with which we present it.
