Artifact: My Identity Poem

Sound devices/figurative language used:

• Rhyme  
• Alliteration  
• Onomatopoeia 
• Simile 
• Hyperbole  
• Metaphor  

  

Annaliesa is my name,  

Part of my identity.  

That and a whole lot more make me who I am and want to be. (rhyme)  

I’ve got blonde hair, a brace face 

Eyes that shift between blue and green 

I love to work with clay, as well as sew while watching tv 

It is my artist’s medium.  

I enjoy thrifting, shopping second-hand 

From their closet to mine  

I have a lot of thoughts and opinions  

And not a whole lot of free time

I fill my calendar with sports and such,  

Busy as a bee (simile) 

I buzz around and try to please those I know best, (Onomatopoeia)  

Then read and try to get some rest (rhyme)  

My hands play piano and fill the margins of my page with sketches 

Maybe my drawings reflect my life? (Metaphor) 

It’s fun to be creative, personally I love to write  

Fingers clicking at the keyboard day and night (Hyperbole and rhyme)  

I want to publish a book one day  

A splendid story that I can simply call mine. (Alliteration)  

All my interests 

Abilities 

And what I do with my time 

Make up my identity  

And that, I find sublime. (rhyme)  

This poem circling around my identity was a project that stuck out to me, because I enjoyed it but also got to use things we’ve been learning in class to bring it all together.

Curricular Competencies Reflection

During this project, I developed my writing skills specifically using sound devices and figurative language. Unlike and poetry unit I’ve done before, we got full creative license to use the sound devices and figurative language in our own, original free verse poem. To me, was more engaging than doing a bunch of other poems, like haiku’s, limericks, sonnets, etc. That way, we got to do less build-up and more writing, which was very enjoyable for me.

Thinking- Core Competency Reflection

“I can persevere over time to develop my ideas, and I expect setbacks and failure, but use that to develop my ideas.”

I showed the core competency above when I was writing my identity poem. The process I used was a brainstorm page to spill my ideas for the poem onto the page, then used them to craft a rough draft of my poem. This was the method I used to develop my poem, ideas, and aspects of my identity before then combining them into one. Some challenges I had while writing this poem were being able to incorporate all of the required sound devices/figurative language. A few of them just didn’t blend into the poem like I wanted them to, and so I changed a few lines up and played around with how it sounded out loud to make it exactly how I wanted it. That is how I used perseverance to work around setbacks to ripen and curate this poem to my taste. Next time, I might try planning out how I want to use the poetic devices instead of doing them as I went along with the writing process. Building on top of my ideas worked for me, but maybe next time I will think more of the structure in the poem beforehand.