Reading and observing many different poems by various poets has helped me develop my own writing style. Being able to incorporate many different techniques inspired by the mentor poets studied, has allowed me create poems which are more interesting for the reader. The revision process has also been crucial for the publication of many poems.
After paying close attention to the different elements of poetry such as diction, line spacing, syntax, punctuation, rhyme scheme, and more, I learned that those techniques help piece the poem together. However, I came to the understanding that not every single device inspired from a certain mentor poet must be used in my own writing. For example, the poem I wrote “A Letter to the Lost” was influenced by Robert Frost’s
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He also used minimal grammer and capitalized the first word of each stanza. While writing my poem, I wanted to include a rhyme scheme as Frost did, but I did not want to mimic his writing of an alternating rhyme scheme. I rhymed throughout the poem and when I was able to rhyme but it was not in a particular sequence. I did not want to follow certain requirements and feel as if I had to write my poem in a certain way for many reasons. First, I did not want to change the meaning of my poem by adding unnecessary words just to make the poem rhyme. Also, a main objective of this unit was learning how to write original poems, and simply replicating a different poet’s way of writing is not fulfilling that objective. The is a significant difference between mirroring a poet’s way of writing and being inspired by a poet’s works. I was influenced by Frost’s decision to use minimal grammar and structure the poem with four lines within each stanza, so I incorporated those elements in my poem. However, I did not feel as if my poem was complete with only six stanzas so I decided to include