The overall purpose of my poem was to illustrate how important my water bottle is in my everyday life. With my poem, I was a little bit torn between my audience being simply my teacher marking, or a group of teenagers or adults. I think my poem would still fit for both of the audiences. For most of my poem I sort of talked about how I would handle the water bottle in a game setting, although I did not specifically state it. I generally took inspiration on how’s my teammates felt during our football games, but I also could have related it to previous years when I played soccer. Instead of doing a simple poem that described the bottle like , “blue as a ocean,” I tried to relate it to an experience so that I could describe the sound and how the bottle worked since it was squeeze bottle. The sound and action of squeezing is what’s most important about that bottle, so I tried to create imagery using a scene during a game.
I was looking around my room for an object to write on and I couldn’t find anything, but I looked into my bag to grab my lunch and found my water bottle just underneath my lunch. I started to think of the 5 senses when I started to describe the bottle, but I started to focus more on the sound and squeeze attribute of the bottle. I don’t think there was any strategy in particular that helped, but I find walking around helps formulate ideas. I think something that is innovative about my poem is that I tried to put in a sport situation that illustrated the use and need of the bottle in that situation. I think for next time maybe I could try and emphasize more on the sports part of the imagery, because I never mentioned anything specifically about sports other than a subtle mention of my pads in the first line. Because of this, the reader may get the wrong idea and the poem will cause them to visualize something different.