The  poem packet is seriously a piece of art. There's  so many poems. Even though a lot of them I don't quite understand. I have put some thought into some that caught my attention. Poems are a way that artists decide to express themselves. Just like movies and drawings and all the other creative things that others  do to express their own selves. I'm not good at creating poems but I do believe that this class will help me in some way. 

   Some sonnets had a structure to them that was pretty neat. In Shakespeare's sonnets he used an iambic pentameter. It goes A B A B C D C D E F E F G G; where every A rhymes with every A, every B with every B and so on from there.  Its actually very interesting. I used this technique when creating my own sonnet for class. The second one I'm still working on. I might decide to use Berrigan's style of writing sonnets because his way was very different as well. it was kind of all over the place. You can see that him and Shakespeare has different views but are both great artists.

In class we compared how the two poets work and looked for similarities in their work. We compared sonnet 116 from Shakespeare  and  sonnet XVI and we saw how they both used the same sound end words in their sonnets. But there was a difference Shakespeare used different rhyming words while Berrigan used the exact same words in each ending while still using the A B A....format. One of the poems that I liked which was by Harryette  Mullen called Dream Cycle, you would think that it was about this person actually being at the ice-cream  truck getting ready to order some ice cream but they were really having a dream. this poem reminds me of me. When I really want something I dream of it and once I awake and realize it was only a dream I sigh and try to go back to sleep:(