My Poem

Curricular Competencies Reflection:

For this poem, the only audience I had in mind was my teacher Ms. Khokar and the basic purpose of the poem was to complete the assignment, but a more in-depth purpose of this poem was to express my own experiences creatively. All elements of this poem are related to me personally as going strawberry picking was an activity that my family always participates in. The way I have written my poem is so that the 3 stanza’s each have a different part of the journey of the strawberry picking. In the first the environment is set, and the strawberry fields are described. Then the second stanza is the process of picking and gathering the berries. In the final stanza it describes taking the berries home and the process of making things with the berries for consumption. In arranging my poem this way, I hoped to engage anyone who reads it by using a concise timeline. Another way that I planned my poem to be engaging was through imagery. In this poem I use poetic devices like alliteration, personification and similes in the hope to create a vivid image for the reader.

Creative Thinking Core Competency Reflection:

I chose this topic for my poem after being reminded about memories of strawberry picking when a book review mentioned it. I knew right away that because strawberry picking was something I had personal experiences with I would be able to center a poem around the process. To develop and draft the poem I looked at some images of strawberry fields so I could accurately portray the fields with creative imagery and called on some memories of picking strawberries in the past so I could relate close experiences in the poem. This poem was more innovative and different from the ones I have written in the past as it focused on one item and its growth. In the future I hope to improve on incorporating more poetic devices inside my works. I will do so by having my poetic devices list beside me and using a checklist to make sure I use more poetic devices in my next poem.