For this weekly reflection, I remembered an incident from when I was writing my poetry for class. My friend likes sending me random messages and one said something along the lines of "I love cheese bagels." Then we started discussing school and I mentioned that I had to write two poems for my English class. He jokingly asked if my poem was about cheese, and being cheeky, I responded with:
Oh melted cheese upon that bagel.
Your gooey goodness upon that table.
Please don't go, we're meant to be.
Oh cheese bagel, don't go cold on me.
I think I was more confused with my response than my friend was. However, writing that so-called poem really helped me write my two other poems for various reasons. The first was that it really got me into the rhyme scheme mindset. As foolish as this poem is, it still has two rhyming couplets. The poem even has repetition and alliteration. Even the idea of a cold bagel being a metaphor for death is present in the poem. But I didn't think about any of this when I messaged it over to my friend, why would I? I wasn't until I started writing this post that I truly noticed these things. However, subconsciously, I think writing this poem as a joke really was influential in my ability to use some of these literary devices when writing my actual poetry shortly after. I did use a lot of these devices in at least one, if not both, poems. This really took me back to the first day of class when Professor Wexler said that you can somehow relate anything back to the subject being taught in this class. I would never have thought that a silly text to my friend would help me write poems that I would stand up and share in front of my entire class. It was a fun and interesting experience and I can't wait to move onto the group work now.
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