Creative Thinking

The final unit project for the Poetry Unit in our class was to create a Poetry Collection. This collection required three themes, each with 5 poems each. Within each theme, two poems were written by a different writer, while three poems were original poems. Additionally, an original sonnet, haiku and cinquain were added to the collection. 

I demonstrated creative thinking in this project through the writing of my original poems. When writing a poem, I first considered the theme that it was going to be part of. For example, one of my themes was “Hope”. I thought about what a person who was feeling hope might experience, and what they may be thinking of. I also used metaphors and symbols that represent hope in my poems. 

Additionally, I took inspiration from other poets. I read “Milk and Honey” by Rupi Kaur and admired the way that she created mood in her poems. When writing poems in my “Grief” section, I used shorter, halting lines in a similar style to Rupi Kaur to create a feeling of emptiness and loss.