Exercise 2

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poet 3

poet 4

poet 5

poet 6

poet 7

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Firstly apologies WordPress for some reason decided to totally blank out this part of the blog so I have had to copy and paste and it has not come out well.

Secondly I really struggled with this, I have always found poetry difficult. As a genre it is not something I read, though I did do the war poets over 30 years ago. I have some knowledge of the methods but often fail to get what the poem is about ie the whole process.

I tried to start from basics, with some admittedly unknown on-line sources, just as an aid memoire of the various devices. I did not entirely understand them all, I tried to get as good a grasp as I could but as a nonwriter and an area I am not interested in pursuing I found it very difficult.

The work on The Bean Eaters was taken from Seattle PI a Newspaper Media site written by various authors, an educational site.

The other items for finding your own devices, I found in my own library and from my own reading as an A level English student. Unfortunantely I cannot edit them directly due to the WordPress glitch, I could if it were essential go back into my library to find each book as the source.

I will confess that I lacked direction on this one, at the time I was unsure how to approach this one and am still unsure. I choose to rely on past experience rather than look for new work, on relection were I to revisit this section I would perhaps try to look at poems I was not familiar with. I am not minded to spend time to completely re- work this section as I am not going to be taking the writing route.  I think the lessons I have learnt are more important. That as regards WordPress  do not rely on it and the research on relective writing with the tutor’s feedback are more valuable to take away.  This exercise challenged my existing understanding and rather than rehash this exercise, I will be taking the new knowledge forward into my furture exercises. I am accepting that this exercise is not right but I find myself unable to put it right effectively so shall leave it as an example of how not to do it.