My poem

Curricular Competency Reflection

A) What is the overall purpose of this poem?

The purpose of this poem is to showcase what my favourite vegetable is, and to show the favourite form this vegetable can take that is personally my favourite. It discusses the appearance, taste, and feel of the potato while causing potential viewers to feel hunger.

B) Who did you have in mind as your intended audience for this poem?

The intended audience for this analysis and poem are my peers and teachers. I hope to demonstrate my knowledge and understanding that I have obtained so far through my high school career, and hope to receive some constructive criticism from those who read this analysis and poem helping me become a better English student.

C) What elements of this poem are personal or related to you?

This poem relates to me because it is my favourite vegetable, writing about what I taste, feel, and the way the subject is prepared prior to serving.

D) How did you plan, develop, and create this poem to be engaging?

To make this poem more engaging I added different poetic devices to cause a blend within the words rather than throwing them at the viewer.

E) How did you use imagery (different sense) in your poem?

Within this poem taste, feel, appearance was involved and the beginning stage of the potato while causing readers to visualize what the potato’s finished product possibly looked like, tasted like, and felt like.

Creative Thinking Core Competency Reflection

A) How did you choose the topic for your poem?

The decision to create a poem about potatoes concluded with the the frequent consumption of eating potatoes, while never getting tired of the taste.

B) How did you form or develop your own original ideas to create the poem?

After reading all of Pablo Nerudas’ poems about the onion, artichoke, and tomato numerous times- it gave me the idea to make a poem about a potato. Even though we were given the ability to write about something other than our favourite vegetable and something more sentimental, trying to capture the essence of a potato was the overall goal upon completion of this poem.

C) What strategies helped to stimulate your imagination?

Strategies to boost my imagination was to close my eyes, and focus on the subject without the sense we use most being sight. Thinking of the taste, and feel without having the subject in my hand caused me to be more mindful, and narrow my thoughts in to depict the feel and taste more than the appearance, giving me the ability to create a more vivid image of what I wanted viewers to focus on more.

D) What is innovative about your poem?

My poem brings a new subject to the table being about potatoes because viewers rather expect poetry to be more meaningful, sad, romantic, while this form of poetry is to broadcast what writers appreciate in their given subject.

E) What could you improve on for next time?

To improve this analysis and poem, I believe asking for assistance mostly on the analysis would make my word choices better, improve my vocabulary and take out any unnecessary words.